Just got reminded about the dihydrogen monoxide thing and am wondering why the prefix is 'di' instead of 'bi'

Just got reminded about the dihydrogen monoxide thing and am wondering why the prefix is 'di' instead of 'bi'.

Can anyone explain our point me in the right direction to find out?

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Bi- is to English as Di- is to Greek

that is too many burger

Oh, so chemical names have Greek origin, not Latin? There's fuckin weird.

Thanks.

because bi is gay

>weird
diabolic even

why is it mono and not uni?

Why is it called Bicarbonate?

nigga BI is "dual"
di means simply "two"

>two burgers
Can understand I often have two burgers myse-
>and a mcflurry
Crossing the line there buddy.

>mcflurry
nigga thats a sundae

Biabolic

Because it was discovered by English

Di- is Greek, Bi- is Latin
Mono- is Greek, Uni- is Latin

even worse

Patently false, bi is not from Latin
Bi and di are both Greek.


Latin for two is duo

duo is the single latin word for two, it's not a prefix dummy, and the person you're responding to is right. hydro is a greek word so we use the greek di as a prefix

Carbon comes from Latin, so we use the Latin bi
Hydro comes from Greek, so we use the Greek di

>English
You mean Latin.

>Patently false, bi is not from Latin
Never act smug when you're wrong.

>saying unophosphate instead of monophosphate

There's a lot of conventions you just take for granted and move on.

Dead language

>saying unophosphate
No you don't, wild draw tetra bitch