"khimiya" means chemistry in Russian, KHIMIK means chemist.
 
laura
 
>On Tue, 15 Nov 1994, Stephen Brown wrote:
>
>> Later in the season, Harvard is playing an exhib. game against a Russian
>> touring team called KHIMIK. Does anyone know who/what they are?
>>
>> SBrown
>> H '93,9?
>>
>Although I cannot give you exact information on KHIMIK, my guess is that
>this is a team representing either a Chemical Institute or a club
>sponsored by a chemical manufacturing company. It would appear that this
>is the word meaning chemist in the Russian language. However it could
>just be an acronym.
>
>Dick Crepeau
>Go Gophers
>
 
 
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