@iro_miya@mk.absturztau.be how do you read them into like. a name. that you can easily search for and/or pronounce? idk take a chemistry class. the naming of molecules is an entire lecture or two with new conventions as you learn fancy new types of molecules. for a lot of the "linear" ones (with a chain of carbons and some stuff hanging off the side of each), you start in one end and just index each non-hydrogen attachment, ending with the name of the hydrocarbon that has that many carbon atoms (methane, ethane, butane, propane, pentane, hexane; first four are quirky). start in whichever end results in smaller indices I guess. how do you name each attachment? fuck if I know. I studied this shit and got an A but it's so painful to learn. "OH" is just the suffix "-nol". if the carbons make a ring you add the prefix "cyclo-" I think. if they make two or more rings you pray. if there are two carbon chains I think that's an ester so you concatenate them in lexical sorting order? if there are more chains then they didn't teach me this in school. if it's ever unambiguous to omit information, you always omit it. chemists are very ffic. never repeat yourself if the thing you're about to say can be deduced from prior information. this keeps names short and sudoku-like.