Do you ever think about the fact that Ed’s entire life goal almost hinged on whether or not he’d be able to pass the state alchemist test, and yet when he actually got to the test he decided to demonstratively try to assassinate the president
The chemical name for vitamin C is “ascorbic acid”. I always used to wonder about this one. Is being ascorbic like being acerbic? Is it like being ascetic? Absorbent? Some combination of all of them?
Today I learned that scorbi is just a Latinish way of writing scurvy. So a-scorbi-c acid is “no-scurvy acid”.