Ferric Memes

Just a chemistry professor pointing out that while most metals get the adjective "metallic," iron gets "ferrous" or "ferric" depending on its oxidation state. The fact that we don't call iron "ironic" is, well... exactly that. The title "Hi, Fe 3+ And Fe 2+ (:" is just rubbing salt in the wound by greeting the iron ions by their formal oxidation states instead of using their proper adjective forms. Chemistry nomenclature strikes again.