Trivial name of vitriol" (sulfuric acid), and "cream of tartar" (potassium bitartrate) borrowed their language from the kitchen. Many more names were based on color; for example, hematite, orpiment, and verdigris come from words meaning "blood-like stone", "gold pigment", and "green of Greece". Some names are based on their use. Lime is a general name for materials combining calcium with carbonates, oxides or hydroxides; the name comes from a root "sticking or adhering"; its earliest use was as mortar for construction. Water has several systematic names, including "oxidane" (the IUPAC name), "hydrogen oxide", and "dihydrogen monoxide" (DHMO). The latter was the basis
Today is Friday within his writing. In fact, "Today is Friday" was not the only story within "Men Without Women" to reference boxing, the story, Fifty Grand is explicitly about a boxer training for a prizefight. Hemingway's apparent obsession with boxing is documented in multiple archived letters and he is widely quoted as having said, "my writing is nothing, my boxing is everything" whilst being interviewed by Josephine Herbst. The way in which Hemingway appreciated boxing is made ever more vivid through the way he characterised Christ as a gallant boxer in "Today is Friday". Indeed, the play has been noted one of