Then the IUPAC lets the scientists who made the discovery pick a name.

然后 IUPAC 让做出这一发现的科学家们选择一个名字。

More important than that, though, there’s no way to translate those names into chemical formulas and IUPAC hates that.

然而，比这更重要的是，没有办法将这些名称转化为化学式，而 IUPAC 讨厌这样做。

IUPAC created a language that could be understood by everyone with minimal, even zero misinterpretation and that’s no easy feat.

IUPAC 创造了一种人人都能理解的语言，误解最少，甚至为零，这绝非易事。

That precedence is decided by a list that was, you guessed it, created by IUPAC to minimize confusion by creating yet more rules.

该优先级由 IUPAC 创建的列表决定， 您猜对了，它通过创建更多规则来最大程度地减少混淆。

Now look, IUPAC does it's best but past a certain point of complexity, no one expects anyone to know all this by heart unless you work for them and name compounds for a living.

现在看，IUPAC 做得最好， 但超过了某个复杂点，除非你为他们工作并以命名化合物为生， 否则没有人期望任何人都能记住这一切。