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Hello,I'm not sure which one I should use. Can you pelase check the rest of the post? Thank you.Ethylization of benzine and gasoline/engine petrols blending

Alan.es · Accepted Answer

Again AE uses gasoline and BrE uses just petrol.

Ethylization of benzine and petrol blending

Chemical characteristics and petrol content

Benzine is a complex mixture of hydrocarbons, mainly within the range C5-C10(C4-C14) and it includes alkanes (paraffins), alkenes (olefins), napthenes (cycloparaffins) and aromatics. The chart 39.1. shows the volume content of the benzine.

Olefin is always spelled with an 'f' even in BrE, confusing:-) ¿ who'd be a translator??

Kajjo · Answer

Alan.esOlefin is always spelled with an 'f' even in BrE, confusing:-)

Olefin: That is because of its latin origin (oleum facere - making/constituting oil) rather then ancient greek.

Sulfur/sulphur: There is no greek "sulphur" which would justify the -ph-, the greek name is theion (from which thiol and so on has been derived).The latin name is sulpur [sic!] and was artificially made greek-looking by changing p into -ph. Thus, the spelling "sulfur" is not primitive or wrong.

Usually, I rigidly and enthusiastically defend greek and latin original spelling, but there has to be a reasonable basis to do so in each single case.

Kajjo

Alan.es · Answer

I haven't got any linguistic knowledge to agree or disagree. I just use the spellings that I learned as a student.

The IUPAC have in recent years decided on the spelling as 'sulfur', maybe because of your argument here.

Antonija · Answer

I am impressed by your knowledge, you two are so versitile: chemistry, linguistics... Thank you very much for helping me.

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