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The Perception Of Perovskite

May 26, 2014 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 92, Issue 21

I found it amusing to read in Mitch Jacoby’s otherwise interesting article that perovskite’s name has a “stodgy, Cold War-era quality” (C&EN, Feb. 24, page 10).

Lev Perovski lived from 1792 to 1856. Have we become so insular that anything sounding vaguely Russian is associated with the Cold War? I will wait with interest to read what can be said of clintonite, Ca(Mg,Al)3(Al3Si)O10(OH)2.

Francois Gygi
Davis, Calif.

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