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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These include compounds based on octadehydrocorrin, which has thetrivialnamecorrole.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thetrivialnameof the species, glaucum, refers to the greyish colour of the leaves.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The group itself has not acquired atrivialname; however, scandium, yttrium and the lanthanides are sometimes called rare earth metals.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The group itself has not acquired atrivialname; it belongs to the broader grouping of the transition metals.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, thetrivialnamecan be potentially confusing.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thetrivialnamealkali metals comes from the fact that the hydroxides of the group 1 elements are all strong alkalis when dissolved in water.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.On the other hand, systematic names can be so convoluted and difficult to parse that their trivial names are preferred.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.And, in some cases, trivial names can be ambiguous or will carry different meanings in different industries or in different geographic regions.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, many trivial names predate formal naming conventions.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Polysaccharides have been given trivial names that reflect their origin.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For instance, the trivial names orthophosphoric acid and trimetaphosphoric acid have nothing to do with aromatics at all.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Trivial names often arise in the common language; they may come from historic usages in, for example, alchemy.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Many trivial names pre-date the institution of formal naming conventions.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Trivial names, however, are not useful for most other oligosaccharides and, as such, systematic rules for the nomenclature of carbohydrates have been developed.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Trivial names on the other hand abound with homonyms and synonyms and are therefore a bad choice as a defining database key.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Glycerol and acetic acid are examples of retained semisystematic names; furan and anisole are examples of retained trivial names.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These so-called silly or funny trivial names (of course depending on culture) can also serve an educational purpose.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Butyl is the largest substituent for which trivial names are commonly used for all isomers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
- race-baiter
- race-baiting
- race-baiting
- race car
- race-car
- race car driver
- race-car-driver
- racecourse
- raced
- race discrimination
- race-discrimination
- race equality
- race-equality
- race-gender-etc-card
- racehorse
- raceme
- race meet
- race-meet
- race meeting
- race-meeting
- racemic
- race-neutral
- race-neutral
- race organizer
- racer