Re: What chemical equation can be represented by the letters HIJKLMNO?

Because this is a riddle, rather than a scientific question, I should not 
give you and everyone who reads the Mad Scientist pages the answer. But 
there are three other things I can do:

(1) clear up a slight error
(2) give a clue
(3) ask another riddle that works nearly the same way, but not quite.


(1) Either you or the teacher has got it just slightly wrong. There is no 
chemical EQUATION represented by the letter sequence HIJKLMNO. The question 
should be 'What chemical FORMULA is represented by HIJKLMNO ?'

(2) The clue comes here. It might be a giveaway, so anyone who does not 
want the clue had better look away! How would you say 'HIJKLMNO' in a 
shorter way?

(3) If you made a molecule from one atom of cobalt and 2 atoms of calcium, 
what sort of a bird would you have?

John