Imponderable fluid

Imponderables (Latin imponderabilis - imponderable ) is a linguistic term for education uncertainties, eg Feelings, emotions and mood swings or unquantifiable risks. The term is used only in the plural; the antonym Ponderabilien is used even less frequently. Both terms will probably go back to Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier, who ensure that the imponderable elementary substances (eg the light fabric) of the ponderable basic components of the gases differed.

In business administration be understood in an investment decision under imponderables in value or only about quantifiable factors. The principle of prudence ( " principle of commercial prudence " ) commands, duly acknowledged in accounting and reporting all risks and losses and in cases of doubt rather too high to be recognized as too low.