Doesn’t that come from Latin cor ‘heart’? :-) (Just guessing.)
(Also, core can also refer to the nucleus plus the electrons other than those in the outermost shell, so it’d be ambiguous.)
“middle bit”?
Doesn’t that come from Latin cor ‘heart’?
Nope: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=kernel
Wrong word. Actually, yes.
Oops. I failed to read that properly.
Doesn’t that come from Latin cor ‘heart’? :-) (Just guessing.)
(Also, core can also refer to the nucleus plus the electrons other than those in the outermost shell, so it’d be ambiguous.)
“middle bit”?
Nope: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=kernel
Wrong word. Actually, yes.
Oops. I failed to read that properly.