Trivial designations

The above example demonstrates the power of utilizing modeling tools when designing microstructures for high-performance bioanalytical systems. Trivial design errors are easily avoided and preliminary optimization of a microfluidic structure may thus be accomplished in silico, prior to extensive and expensive processing rounds in the microfabrication laboratories. 

The names for hydrocarbon radicals are governed by simple and fairly consistent rules with which the public is generally familiar. On the contrary, little of systematic significance is to be found when the names of functions and substituents are considered. For the most part, they are taken from the names of the elements or from trivial designations sanctioned by tradition. It is patent that the intervention, in the functions, of inorganic elements with varying valence and unsuitability for application of the substitution principle make them mostly the field of opportunism. 

The name pyridoxine (PN) is a trivial designation of one vitamin Bg component in which the substituent is an hydroxymethyl [3-hydroxy-4,5-bis(hydroxymethyl)-2-methylpyridine]. The biologically active analogues are... 

Failure of a structure, facility, system, product, or process can have dire consequences in terms of loss of life or great economic cost, as illustrated by descriptions of failures, a few of which are presented in Chapter 11 and many of which are described by (Delatte 2009). Because each non-trivial design is new and unique, there cannot be a 100 percent guarantee of success. That which is designed is only as safe as its weakest element. Each design is an untested hypothesis. The test is the structure, facility, system, product, or process itself and how it functions. Failures can, in a cold academic sense, be explained as disproved hypotheses. 

Trivial designations are retained for the groups Vinyl H2C=CH- (systematic name Ethenyl) and Allyl H2C=CH-CH2- (systematic name Prop-2-enyl). 

For simply branched hydrocarbons and their substituent groups the following trivial designations are retained... 

The possibilitiy to assign systematic names to all of these fundamental hydrides should be no means prejudice the abolishment of the perennial trivial designations methane, ammonia, water, and hydrogen halides. 

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