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That's a funny coincidence that the "Radon" there is a person's name and not the radioactive element or its emanations.


Not really related but similar situation and I found it funny when I realized it:

The Poynting-Vector (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poynting_vector) indicates the direction of the energy flow of a magnetic field, but it’s named after a physicist called „Poynting“, not because it is „pointing“ somewhere. I thought the „y“ in poynting was a typo when I first read it.


Nominative determinism strikes again.




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