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bigger_cheeselast Friday at 3:25 AM2 repliesview on HN

Physics has "Strangeness" and "Charm Quarks"

My own field Materials Engineering has:

"Hardness", "Toughness", Resilience", etc. which all describe different properties.

"Ferromagnetic" or "Ferrimagnetic best believe those are different.


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Oreblast Friday at 8:06 AM

And astrophysics has MACHOs and WIMPs.

sweetjulylast Friday at 4:58 AM

and, of course, can't forget the derivatives of position after jerk being snap, crackle, and pop [1] after, you know, Rice Krispies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth,_fifth,_and_sixth_deriv...