Re: Is this acceptable Chemical English?

From: N:dlzc D:aol T:com \(dlzc\) (net_at_nospam.com)
Date: 02/26/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 11:45:47 -0700

Dear Lloyd Parker:

"Lloyd Parker" <lparker@emory.edu> wrote in message
news:cvqf1c$2l7$1@puck.cc.emory.edu...
> In article <cvo73e$ogd$1@news-int.gatech.edu>,
> david.bostwick@chemistry.gatech.edu (David Bostwick) wrote:
>>In article <1109363209.295837.3380@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
> "number6" <snumber6@aol.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>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>
>>>
>>
>>ROTFL. The one picture I had never visualized. And it still shows the
>>difference.
> But according to my dictionary, "in" is acceptable in that context. Two
> of
> the definitions listed for it are two definitions of "into" -- my
> Webster's
> specifically says "go in the house" is acceptable for "go into the
> house."

It is acceptable in context, but not necessarily the same meaning. It
depends on context to differentiate...

David A. Smith

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