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▲ moregrist 2 days ago

> With Google it's totally incoherent. Hydrogen --> Argon --> Carbon!?

Yeah, to someone with a chemistry background, the naming is just terrible. There’s no apparent periodic table trend and no functional relationship.

Argon is most perplexing. As the third in the Noble gas series, it is essentially inert. Its main laboratory/industrial use is to provide a locally inert atmosphere to keep things from reacting. It’s used when pure nitrogen is too reactive.

An element whose main traits are “inert, prevents things from happening” seems like terrible marketing for an LLM.