How is chromium pronounced?
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I used to pronounce it as “luo”, but today a colleague said it should be pronounced as “ge”. How exactly should it be pronounced?
\"gè\" is pronounced with the fourth tone, while \"luo\" was the common term used in most areas of the north back in the past; it refers to the character written in plain script. This term has been in use for many years; older people usually use it this way. If you go to a factory and mention \"chromium plating\", everyone will understand, but if you use the term \"ge\", no one will know what you mean.
The correct pronunciation is ge, with the fourth tone. Luo, pronounced with the fourth tone, is often mispronounced in the chemical industry to distinguish it from the pronunciation of cadmium; people just go with that mistake.
When it comes to reading “ge”, that’s how our teachers taught us in school. But once we started working, we found that many people read it as “LUO”. When I said it should be read as “ge”, everyone looked at me in surprise.
This is actually a good question. In many cases, what is learned differs from what is practiced in reality, and it’s impossible to change that. What’s important is the ability to communicate with others; after all, there’s no such thing as right or wrong – as long as one can do a good job, that’s sufficient.
I agree with you; in practice it is pronounced as “luo” in order to distinguish it from cadmium!
It should be ge, with the fourth tone; old ones are like chlorine, lv with the fourth tone, lu also with the fourth tone. An experienced worker said I was wrong, and I was speechless:L
It’s pronounced as “luo”; in engineering, if you pronounce it as “ge”, you’ll be considered an amateur.
In factories, it is uniformly read as “luo”. The same is true even when manufacturing airplanes and rockets. What the teachers teach at school
You can look it up in a dictionary; I even made a bet with a colleague because of the pronunciation of this character. Both new and experienced workers generally pronounce it as LUO, but whether this pronunciation is listed in dictionaries is perhaps just an *established way of saying it.
There are many other terms for this *inertia; dictionaries cannot explain them, but they have become established usage. For example, the valves mentioned in textbooks are either low-point discharge valves or drain valves, but *traditionally they are called “drainage valves”” ； The unit of length is always MM; 1% of a mm is actually 0.01 mm, but people refer to it as “1 dou”. It was only after asking many experienced craftsmen that I learned this is the pronunciation from Japanese, which came from the Northeast region. It can also be called “1 thread”” ； In terms of addressing, we call them “Master So-and-So,” but in the factory they are simply referred to as “Master So.” There’s no other way; it’s all about habit – one has to adapt. This post was last edited by yzhaown99 on 2009-3-23 14:56.]
Hehe, that’s indeed the case. It’s about adapting to local customs :) Technical support