{"id":4153,"date":"2021-01-25T11:35:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T10:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/2021\/01\/25\/the-sound-of-the-word-induction\/"},"modified":"2021-01-25T11:35:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T10:35:16","slug":"the-sound-of-the-word-induction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/2021\/01\/25\/the-sound-of-the-word-induction\/","title":{"rendered":"The sound of the word “induction”"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there was one thing Michael Faraday<\/strong> couldn’t stand, this was cacophony<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The unpleasant feeling one gets from hearing awkward-sounding words.<\/p>\n

The eminent scientist commissioned his friend, William Whewell (who in addition to being a scientist himself was also a real “wordsmith”) to find the terms now necessary in that science that they were gradually discovering: electromagnetism.<\/p>\n

And here we go: “diamagnetism<\/em>“, “electrode<\/em>“, “anode<\/em>“, “ions<\/em>” (“anions<\/em>” and “cations<\/em>“).<\/p>\n

He couldn’t make his mind between “cathode<\/em>” and “skaiode<\/em>“. Eventually he went for the first (even if I’m sure we all agree the latter is way cooler).<\/p>\n

And “Bicarburet of hydrogen<\/em>“, which sounded magnificently to me. But some killjoy had to change it into “benzene<\/em>” for some reason…<\/p>\n

But what Michael wanted to be called?<\/p>\n

Not “physicist” for sure. He despised, in his own words, the “akwardness of three separate sounds of i<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

In his later years, he was offered a knighthood by the Queen Victoria herself. He turned the offer down.<\/p>\n

He said he was happy with the way “plain Mr Faraday” sounded.<\/p>\n

In the picture, the Inox Bim induction cooking<\/strong> range.<\/p>\n

It heats the cooking vessels thanks to the Faraday’s law of induction.<\/p>\n

And it doesn’t even sound bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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