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Old 02-21-2008, 11:01 AM
Hopeful_Bubbles Hopeful_Bubbles is offline
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Originally Posted by LoggerTheta View Post
I know this sounds really weird, but in geology, we use a lot of greek letters (as in all sciences) well... the greek letter phi is used as a measure of grain size (like medium sand is a 2 phi grain and a fine sand is a 4 phi... it has to do with the diameter of the grain, but I digress) anyway, we pronounce it "fee" in geology. Though I think it's because saying "fye size" doesn't roll off the tongue as well as "fee size"
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Yay, another female geologist!
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