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  • beckerist@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyz•do a big thinkyEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I’d seen that first link already but the second link got it, thank you! For those that don’t want to click:

    beta-Mercaptoethanol: rather similar to ethanethiol, but the extra OH group gives it some real staying power. Sort of the “sun and sport” version of the parent compound.

    and

    Ethanethiol: the prototype of the class. All the basic sulfur-stink notes - skunky and intestinal. Very volatile, too, which really gives it a quick wallop, but at least it doesn’t stay around forever.

  • beckerist@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•whats up with the &?
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    9 months ago

    Technically it’s the HTML markup for &. When publishing the title it stores it as

    & amp; (with no space)

    and the browser interprets it as & but when a bot posts it elsewhere it reads and reproduces the entire string as plain text. Would take a single function to fix the bot.

    edit: Lemmy keeps interpreting the markup as just & lol