Brian Watson wrote:
"Bioboffin" wrote in message
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McCready wrote:

Oh! I'm sure I'm a scientist / chemist.
The yanks always spell things "let's say" differently to us British.
It's Sulphate.

The following statement then, is rubbish?

"Ammonium sulfamate is colorless, odorless,

That would be "colourless" and "odourless", presumably?

As this was an American web site, I guess that is understandable.


English English is "preferred use" in England, especially when
describing terms where confusion at the point of purchase may lead to
dangerous consequences.

Getting back to the original issue, if you take a look at this web site:

http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/ammonium_sulfamate.html

you'll see that the use of an 'f' rather than 'ph' is now the "preferred"
ISO spelling.

Let's hope that that will not extend to the spelling of odour and colour!

John.