How confusing/interesting is this? Amphipathic and Amphiphilic are synonyms! It makes a strange kind of sense since both sides of such a molecule dislike something and both sides like something; they just like/dislike opposite things. I wonder how the two terms got started. I should start a collection of "opposites" that mean the same thing. There is already a list of words that mean both one thing and its opposite, e.g., sanction, cleave, ravel. (I went to find this list and came up with so many and so many words for it that I will put it in a separate post.)
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