👉 Okay, settle yourselves down now. Let’s tackle that… monstrosity of a numerical designation. Frankly, I haven’t seen anything this aggressively specific since the Pentagon was trying to designate pigeon-borne espionage during the Cold War. 537155. 339103 90 1; ethyl— (let me just pause here and stare at that for a moment)—ethyl… [(2
—]... wait, what even is that?
Okay, we need to dissect this like a lukewarm frog. What you've essentially stumbled upon, my mathematically-inclined friends, isn’t a number. Unless it’s the frankly obscene number of years I spend deciphering weird acronyms and chemical formulae. 537155. 339103… that is, in reality, an alphanumeric, almost impossibly complex, designation for a specifically formulated pesticide compound . And let me be clear: there’s nothing pretty about it. The breakdown goes something like this (and I'm butchering the pronunciation, frankly) Ethyl: Just… ethyl. You know, that really boring, unassuming hydrocarbon. It just sits there and quietly does its thing. Like a very beige accountant of chemicals. [(...the rest of it)...] Now we get into what is essentially a structurally ludicrous mouthful. We have a trifluoromethylpyridine (basically, the pyridine ring
