On 17 January 2015 at 14:06, Gordon Joly <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> >
> >     We would never even consider calling people who have two feet
> >     "cispedal" or people who have blood pressure in the normal range
> >     "cistensive".
>
>
> Well, yes....
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cis%E2%80%93trans_isomerism
>
> "In organic chemistry, cis/trans isomerism (also known as geometric
> isomerism) is a form of stereoisomerism describing the relative
> orientation of functional groups within a molecule."
>
>

Thank you for proving my point.  I despair of having to defend humanity
from comparisons to molecules.

RIsker/ANne
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