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For your extra reading:
Plimer I, 'Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science'.
Quartet, 2009.
Delingpole, J: 'The Global Warming Lobby, and the terrier who won't let
go.' The Spectator', 31st October 2009, p31.
US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Minority Staff Report,
December 11th 2008
here.
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You don't have to spell sulphur with
an f!
Read more...
Many of you will have found that exam boards have decided to go
along with a recommendation from QCA and the RSC that sulphur should be
spelled with an 'f' rather than 'ph', ostensibly to 'avoid confusion'.
Who is confused? You don't have to spell it with an -f- ; using
the -ph- form is not a mark-deductible offence, in case you were
worried.
The defining dictionary for British
English is the Oxford English Dictionary - a work of dazzling
scholarship by a huge number of people over many decades. I take my
authority from that. Sulfur is not listed in the online version; if you
type it in you get sulphur. Of course sulfur is given as an alternative
(American) form, but the -ph- spelling has been around since at least
the 14th century and has been universal since the spelling of British
English became standardised several centuries ago.
There are seven towns in America named
for element 16: in Louisiana, Oklahoma, Nevada, Texas, Wyoming,
Arkansas, and South Dakota. All of them named Sulphur. |
Title portraits: Nobel Prize
Winners in Chemistry
1948 - 1954:
1948 Arne Tiselius
1949 William Giaque
1950 Otto Diels
Kurt Alder
1951 Edwin McMillan
Glenn Seaborg
1952 Archer Martin
Richard Synge
1953 Hermann Staudinger
1954 Linus Pauling
Further
details are on the
Nobel website.
Title bar photos
© Nobel Foundation.
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Robert Hooke memorial window (now destroyed) in St. Helen's Bishopsgate
Schools' Class 'Stowe'
KLM 747-400
Roses in English Canal style
Samuel Morse in youth and old age
Hooke's Law: "as the tension, so the extension"
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