Annoying Peeve: Naming substances after the institution at which they are discovered sucks. [View all]

So today I'm reading a paper with this title: Selective Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Mine Ore by Cr-MIL Metal–Organic Frameworks (Charith Fonseka, Seongchul Ryu, Youngwoo Choo, Mark Mullett, Ramesh Thiruvenkatachari, Gayathri Naidu, and Saravanamuthu Vigneswaran, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2021 9 (50), 16896-16904)

MIL? What the hell is MIL? Metal ionic liquid? Methylisoleucine? I looked up the synthesis in the supplementary data, nothing "MIL-like" was there either.

No, I had to poke around.

MIL is "Matérial Institut Lavoisier"

Another example of this stuff - metal organic framework (MOF) people do this a lot is UiO-66, a famous MOF named after the University of Oslo.

This kind of thing is not helpful to young people, or, speaking only for myself, old people either.

Pet Peeve over.