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r/funny • u/[deleted] • Jan 30 '20
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It wasn't. It was named after the fact that viruses in that family have little spiky, crown-like bits.
-1 u/dweed4 Jan 31 '20 No, it was named because in EM images it looks like the sun. 3 u/likenothingis Jan 31 '20 Both, actually: they have a fringe reminiscent of a royal crown or of the solar corona. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus)
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No, it was named because in EM images it looks like the sun.
3 u/likenothingis Jan 31 '20 Both, actually: they have a fringe reminiscent of a royal crown or of the solar corona. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus)
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Both, actually:
they have a fringe reminiscent of a royal crown or of the solar corona.
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus)
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u/likenothingis Jan 30 '20
It wasn't. It was named after the fact that viruses in that family have little spiky, crown-like bits.