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Old 07-July-2009, 02:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Mr Gorsky View Post
I thought Ferrum was the latin name for Iron ... certainly that was the reason given for Iron's atomic symbol being Fe back in High School.
Well, so it is (never took latin). Still, in English, iron compounds are not referred to that way, so that reinforces my thought of a bad translation.
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