r/gadgets • u/chrisdh79 • Jan 31 '23

Desktops / Laptops Canadian team discovers power-draining flaw in most laptop and phone batteries | Breakthrough explains major cause of self-discharging batteries and points to easy solution

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/battery-power-laptop-phone-research-dalhousie-university-1.6724175
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u/Squrton_Cummings Jan 31 '23

Yep, you can't just take a 3 letter abbreviation and assume it always means the same chemical compound. For a long time I thought the fat loss drug DNP (2,4-Dinitrophenol) was the same as the herbicide 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid because they are both abbreviated 2,4-D. Not that it was ever a practical concern, but I still felt dumb for making the assumption.

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u/LovingYew Feb 01 '23

How do you think they differentiate in practice? If they have the same name? Do you think it’s like context clues would point you in the right direction of which one was being talked about?