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Snuppelina Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

converse

Hi, can I say that in a scientific text that "nitride gets conversed into carbonate..." I'm specially interested in the phrase 'gets conversed'. Thanks!
  

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I don't know about your chemistry. That might make an explosion. Haha.

— Dante Alligator

  • I don't know about your chemistry.
  • That might make an explosion.
  • Haha.
  • Just kidding.
  • To say it, "gets conversed" does not sound like a typical phrase in that context to me.
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I don't know about your chemistry. That might make an explosion. Haha. Just kidding. To say it, "gets conversed" does not sound like a typical phrase in that context to me. You might mean one compound changes into another. It would get Conversed if you dropped some on your athletic shoes, however. That's a brand of shoe here.
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ThanksEmotion: big smile No explosion meant.
The idea is that one chemical element gets conversed into another one.
Does such phrase as 'c
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Hi,

'Converse' does not have that meaning.
Say 'converted'.

Clive
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What's the meaning of this phrase in a sentece like this one?
"These codes are conversed in each calculation unit 26 in the same manner as in a case of using calculation units 12".
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The word conversed is used here as a mathematical term.
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