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 Tonight Today is Tonight Today is Tonight is a novel written by Hollywood actress Jean Harlow in the mid-1930s but not published until 1965. Harlow's friend, Ruth Luise Hamp (1906-1968) inherited the rights to the unpublished manuscript, "Today Is Tonight", when Harlow's mother died, and then published the novel. Ezra Goodman, the film critic, wrote the introduction. Harlow's agent, Arthur Landau wrote the foreword. According to Landau, in his foreword to the novel, Harlow had expressed interest in writing a novel as early as 1933–1934 and completed a manuscript before her death in 1937. After her death, Landau writes, her mother