Nominalized inflectional morphemes

Wed Sep 4 18:16:57 UTC 2002

In a message dated 8/31/02 1:44:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, mam at THEWORLD.COM
writes:

>
>               Fe
>               ||
>               C
>              / \
>          Fe=C   C=Fe
>             |   |
>          Fe=C   C=Fe
>              \ /
>               C
>               ||
>               Fe
>
>  A riddle for chemists, who start to turn red at the impossibility of it.

Pearlite necklace?  Ferrite core?  Cast-iron pipe?  The Iron Crown of
Lombardy?  Mercedes Benzene? I give up.

      - Jim Landau