As a biology faculty member, catalogs and ads show up in my mailbox for all kinds of weird laboratory stuff. Today, I got an ad for an FTIR. On the envelop it says, "Open now to discover the world's smallest benchtop FTIR!". It's a four-page folded glossy flyer. It uses the acronym "FTIR" twice on the first page, four times on the second page, 7 times on the third page, and once on the back. But it never defines what an FTIR is. I guess if you don't know, you must not need to know.
Philip informs me that teh google says its a "Fourier transform infrared spectrometer". Just what I've always needed. Not.
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