Re: Is this acceptable Chemical English?

From: number6 (snumber6_at_aol.com)
Date: 02/25/05 

Date: 25 Feb 2005 12:26:49 -0800

David Bostwick wrote:
> In article <cvnuns$5ic$1@puck.cc.emory.edu>, lparker@emory.edu (Lloyd
Parker) wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >
> >Or "A 0.1675-g sample of extra pure X was placed in a 500-mL
volumetric
> >flask..."
>
> <pet peeve>
>
> "In" and "into" are not the same, as my 7th-grade teacher beat into
me.
>
> Picture in your mind the sentence, "She burst into the room."
>
> Now picture, "She burst in the room."

I see what you mean ... in the first case ... her guts went flying into
the room ... in the second ... they just stayed in the room she was in
...

>
> </pet peeve>

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