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How to spell no

What it means: Used to express refusal, disagreement, or a negative answer.

In a sentence: No, you cannot have dessert before dinner. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as No. or Nobelium.

Sounds like, but is not: know. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.

Same family: nobelium, actinide, radioactive, element, isotope. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The chemical symbol No stands for nobelium, named in honor of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel Prizes. Its symbol uses the first two letters of "Nobel" to match the naming style of other elements like curium (Cm) and einsteinium (Es).

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