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it's funny that glassblowers still call their sodium-blocking glass 'didymium glass' 138 years after von welsbach discovered that didymium doesn't actually exist, isn't it



Cool call-out there, I hadn't realized praseodymium and neodymium are actually short for praseodidyium and neodidymium ("green" and "new" didymium, respectively). Having all three of those words multiple times writing out this comment, I totally understand why the extra "id" was eventually dropped for the elements' formal names.


Having been in the industry ~15 years, it’s true: the number of glassblowers who would be concerned about that is very small.




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