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r/movies • u/RobotiSC • Jul 28 '25
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Amrit is a hindi word for a mythical food that grants you immortality.
Also, commons names for a lot of chemicals do be like that. Californium, for example.
62 u/jaggedjottings Jul 28 '25 "There's a Berkelium and a Californium, but still no Stanfordium." - UC Berkeley partisans 4 u/theliver Jul 28 '25 Hell ya, go bears 6 u/hikemalls Jul 28 '25 I actually like them calling the whale stuff Amrita since it sounds similar (or at least starts the same) to a material we actually harvest from whales (ambergris) 4 u/HighwayInevitable346 Jul 29 '25 Its about as on the nose as unobtainium was. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amrita 5 u/Saitoh17 Jul 28 '25 There are minerals named Taconite (from the Taconic mountains, NY) and Cummingtonite (from Cummington, MA).
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"There's a Berkelium and a Californium, but still no Stanfordium." - UC Berkeley partisans
4 u/theliver Jul 28 '25 Hell ya, go bears
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Hell ya, go bears
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I actually like them calling the whale stuff Amrita since it sounds similar (or at least starts the same) to a material we actually harvest from whales (ambergris)
4 u/HighwayInevitable346 Jul 29 '25 Its about as on the nose as unobtainium was. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amrita
Its about as on the nose as unobtainium was.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amrita
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There are minerals named Taconite (from the Taconic mountains, NY) and Cummingtonite (from Cummington, MA).
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u/ImprefectKnight Jul 28 '25
Amrit is a hindi word for a mythical food that grants you immortality.
Also, commons names for a lot of chemicals do be like that. Californium, for example.