Hi Tim,
in the UK, you'd probably be rather surprised how many nuts your
fruitcake contains, none of them strawberries (thus the saying "as nutty
as a fruitcake).
Andreas
On 15/11/2012 5:59, Tim Gruene wrote:
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Dear s,
I have heard this discussion before and reminds me of people claiming
strawberries were nuts - which botanically may be correct, but would
still not make me complain about strawberries in a fruit cake I
ordered at a restaurant.
My Pengiun English Dictionary states (amongst other explanations)
freeze: "to make extremely cold", so as long as you think your article
is written in English, you did not say anything wrong, assuming your
readers are intelligent enough to understand what you are trying to
say - and in a crystallographic article, the process of 'freezing'
your crystal is most likely not your main point where you need to be
100% unambiguous.
Cheers,
Tim
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Andreas Förster, Research Associate
Paul Freemont & Xiaodong Zhang Labs
Department of Biochemistry, Imperial College London
http://www.msf.bio.ic.ac.uk
