# Moly: animal, mineral or vegetable? *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 25 Feb 1997* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Kieran Cleary *25 Feb 1997, 17:22* Mantis, > You wrote: > Easy now. You've confused Moly and Maggie! (See lists, IV.) The > handy mneumonic is to remember that "Moly" is the magic herb > (sweetheart of Hammerstone), Maggie is the metal. I'm new to the mailing list, so ignore this is someone has already pointed it out. Moly may be a magic herb, but it's the diminutive of Molybdenum which is also a (transition) metal, no. 42 in periodic table, and thus a suitable chem name. ____________________________________________________________ Kieran Cleary Senior Research Engineer North West Labs Finisklin Industrial Estate Sligo Republic of Ireland Tel. +353 71 69441 Fax. +353 71 69451 email kcleary at tinet.ie ___________________________________________________________ Questions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com ---