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[โ€“] pankuleczkapl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Actual science: these are arbitrary categories of materials based on their band gaps, so these names don't really mean anything precise

Pfft sounds kinda woke to me smh my head