英语词汇9944 percent pure的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

99.44 percent pure. This bit of advertising hype for ivory soap is often used jokingly to describe anything pure. The New York Times (5/22/94) reported that: “A Procter & Gamble archi- vist, Edward Rider, says that although the soap’s history is shrouded in myth, the best source for the number is an analysis done Dec. 14, 1882, by a New York City chemist, W. M. Habir- shaw, who found the soap to be 72.53 percent ‘fatty anhydrides,’ 9.28 percent ‘soda combined’ and 17.63 percent ‘water by dif- ference.’ ” If you add up the numbers you get 99.44 percent. And the first known ad to use this figure appeared a week later.

词汇	9944 percent pure
词源	99.44 percent pure. This bit of advertising hype for ivory soap is often used jokingly to describe anything pure. The New York Times (5/22/94) reported that: “A Procter & Gamble archi- vist, Edward Rider, says that although the soap’s history is shrouded in myth, the best source for the number is an analysis done Dec. 14, 1882, by a New York City chemist, W. M. Habir- shaw, who found the soap to be 72.53 percent ‘fatty anhydrides,’ 9.28 percent ‘soda combined’ and 17.63 percent ‘water by dif- ference.’ ” If you add up the numbers you get 99.44 percent. And the first known ad to use this figure appeared a week later.
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