Academic oddities

What are abbreviated copper nanotubes? Cu NTs some slipped past the editors of an academic journal and have provided chemists with a puerile sense of humour hours for fun for many years since. More about Cu NTs here. How do you carry out vegetative electron microscopy? You don’t it’s a phrase that was erroneously generated by OCR software from an old research paper about vegetative cells where later in the paper electron microscopy was mentioned. If you see the phrase used in a modern paper, it’s a good indicator that it’s AI slop produced by a so-called paper mill. Find out more here. What on earth does the phrase mass killing of an ethnic group have to do with chemical reactions? Nothing. It has nothing to do with chemistry it’s another example of very bad paper mill writing, where the original phrase was meant to read “1ml of the final solution was added to 20ml of the sample solution”. The phrase final solution coming from a rather dark place in an entirely unrelated context! I…