Of all the real-world names for chemicals that sound like they were dreamed up by a comic book writer as an ingredient in some superhero’s origin story, “Zoledronic acid” must be near the top of the list.
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I was always creeped out by "arachidonic acid", which sounds a bit like "arachnid" and should have had something to do with Spiderman.
Alas, the relevant hero would have been Mr Peanut.
@gregeganSF I hate that stuff. I had Zoledronic acid infusions every four weeks for two years as part of my cancer treatment.
@gregeganSF I hear you and raise you Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane!
@gregeganSF I went through this period once where I was buying tiny little pocket notebooks from wilko, and when i was bored in the shop (most of the time) I worked at I'd do little doodles and write silly thoughts on them
one of them was a list of "Good biology words" like xylem, thylakoid, neutrophil, ribosome etc
"zoledronic" definitely belongs :D
@gregeganSF Cadaverine is evocative, as well.
@gregeganSF geez. somehow it's worse that one can sorta kinda piece together the name in a systematic manner. there's an imidazole ring! there's a diphosphonic acid, so...dronic acid? why not??
@gregeganSF I don’t remember it with joy. Gave me really bad days, but maybe stronger bones. Did you get a shot?
Not yet. My haematologist needs a letter from my dentist declaring that I’m not at too much risk of osteonecrosis of the jaw before I can be given the injections.
@gregeganSF yes, good first step: make sure the teeth are ready for it. I forgot about that.
@gregeganSF It unfortunately requires a bit of explanation, but there is a chemical called "catocene". In solid rocketry cato is short for "catastrophic explosion", and the purpose of catocene is to make rockets burn faster.