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Life, the Universe and nomenclature

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Bruce Gibb discusses how and why chemists name reactions and molecules — and what makes such monikers stick.

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  1. Bruce C. Gibb is in the Department of Chemistry at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, USA,

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Gibb, B. Life, the Universe and nomenclature. Nature Chem 5, 1–2 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1530

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