Why do people keep writing about the imaginary compound Cr2Gr2Te6? (righto.com)I was reading the latest issue of the journal Science, and a paper mentioned the compound Cr2Gr2Te6. For a moment, I thought my knowledge of the periodic table was slipping, since I couldn’t remember the element Gr. It turns out that Gr was supposed to be Ge, germanium, but that raises two issues. First, shouldn’t the peer reviewers and proofreaders at a top journal catch this error? But more curiously, it appears that this formula is a mistake that has been copied around several times.