Posted by Colette on Friday, November 27, 2009 at 9:48am.
OK here are three examples
IPA can stand for?
Iodoplatinic acid (used in chemistry to show up amines on chromatography plates)
India Pale Ale
Isopropyl alcohol
I once had a student who sprayed chromatography plates with India Pale Ale because he had got no result when he had sprayed the plate with isopropyl alcohol after I had told him to use IPA. I had meant iodoplatinic acid.
If you look here:
http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/IPA
There are loads of examples what IPA could stand for!
Thus by not using abbreviations, errors like mine above can be avoided.
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