chemical names

As if chemistry isn't excruciating enough. You study it for a year or two and, if you're lucky, it makes sense. And then you run into stuff like this: 1. LSD is commonly called "acid." It shouldn't be

Roughly two dozen elements are named after people or places. You know some of them... curium, einsteinium, livermorium, nobelium, etc. Most of these elements are "ghosts" – they don't really exist.

Nomenclature – the "art" of naming organic chemicals – is crazy making.  That's because multiple systems of nomenclature are used to describe chemical compounds.