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• Ytterby, Sweden begat 4 elements: Yttrium, Ytterbium, Terbium, Erbium
• Spectrophotometry: A long word used mainly to intimidate freshman nonmajors.
  -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...
• Inorganic Chemistry: That which is left over after the organic, analytical, and physical chemists get through picking over the periodic table.
  -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...
• otary debugger: [Commodore] n. Essential equipment for those late-night or early-morning debugging sessions.
  Mainly used as sustenance for the hacker. Comes in many decorator colors, such as Sausage, Pepperoni, and Garbage....
• Mercury: (From L. Mercurius, the swift messenger of the gods) Element No.
  80, so named because of the speed of which one of its compounds (calomel, Hg2Cl2) goes through the human digestive tract....
• Spectroscope: A disgusting-looking instrument used by medical specialists to probe and examine the spectrum.
  -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...
• otary debugger n. [Commodore] Essential equipment for those late-night or early-morning debugging sessions.
  Mainly used as sustenance for the hacker. Comes in many decorator colors, such as Sausage, Pepperoni, and Garbage....
• Pilot Plant: A modest facility used for confirming design errors before they are built into a costly, full-scale production facility.
  -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...
• ABEND: [ABnormal END] /o'bend/, /*-bend'/ n. Abnormal termination (of software)
  {crash}; {lossage}. Derives from an error message on the IBM 360...