• rtxn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    green advocates just HAD to ruin it

    MRI used to be called NMRI, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging, because it uses the reaction of the nuclei of atoms to create images. Unfortunately people are fucking stupid and freaked out when they heard “nuclear” so they had to drop the N.