HM Eng.Prowip <eng(a)prowip.net.br> wrote:
On Friday 23 May 2008 21:13:32 Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On May 22, 2008, Josh Boyer <jwboyer(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > Let the naming begin! We're starting very early this time around in
> > the name game for F10. So, let the suggestions flow!
>
> Xenon, Neon and Carbide appear to name existing software products
> already, but Oil, Deuterium and sulphur are other kinds of lamps, more
> specifically, other materials used to build lamps, and I couldn't find
> any programs using these names.
>
> Pyrethrum, nicotine and sulphur are inseticides, they kills bugs!
>
> Charcoal, nitrate and sulphur are components of gunpowder.
>
> Fire and sulfur (brimstone) are major features of hell.
>
> Sulfur, Mercury and Salt are the Three Primes of alchemy.
Phlogiston came quite close to sulphur in the (corresponding, obsolete)
chemical theory.
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