On Monday, 12 April 2021 at 18:15:31 UTC+1, JNugent wrote:
On 12/04/2021 10:54 am, charles wrote:
In article ,
Andy Burns wrote:
charles wrote:

Steve Walker wrote:

I have long thought it wrong to mark down for spelling and grammar,
except in languages.

In chemisty? Is ita sulphate or a sulphide?

Sulfide or sulfate according to IUPAC

could well be, I never learned chemisty
Learning chemistry also crucially includes learning how to spell the
terms used, many of which are only subtly different from each other.

Interestingly he said he'd never "learned" chemisty, I was taught it was "learnt" chemisty.