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Speaking of names of elements - this is hardly worth a new thread but I wanted to share it... My chemistry-teaching wife was correcting some students' assignments at home recently, and I was astounded to see that one of the papers was entitled "The Element Unununium Uuu". "Unununium?", I said, "Is this some kind of joke?" For those of you who, like me, have lost touch with the discovery (read "synthetic production" of one atom for several milliseconds in some cases) of new elements since your school days way back when Lawrencium was a boy, here are the latest imaginatively named elements of the 1990s (yet-to-be made elements in parentheses):
110 Ununnilium Uun
111 Unununium Uuu
112 Ununbium Uub
(113 Ununtrium Uut)
114 Ununquadium Uuq
(115 Ununpentium Uup)
116 Ununhexium Uuh
(117 Ununseptium Uus)
118 Ununoctium Uuo
Seems the pragmatists have taken over from the poets in the naming of elements.
Read all the interesting(?) facts on these exciting new elements at:
http://www.webelements.com/webelements/index.html
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Omens of the End Father Steve 11/25/00 09:33 PM Re: Omens of the End Jazzoctopus 11/25/00 10:03 PM Re: Omens of the End xara 11/26/00 08:27 PM Miles and kilometers lukaszd 11/26/00 09:00 PM Re: Miles and kilometers Jazzoctopus 11/26/00 09:40 PM Re: Miles and kilometers lukaszd 11/26/00 09:53 PM sulfur "traded" for aluminium jmh 11/26/00 02:17 PM Unununium Marty 11/26/00 10:43 PM Re: Unununium jmh 11/27/00 08:21 AM Re: Unununium shanks 11/27/00 09:14 AM Re: Unununium wsieber 11/27/00 09:10 AM Re: Unununium Jazzoctopus 11/27/00 09:19 PM Re: Unununium paulb 11/29/00 09:20 AM Re: Unununium Jackie 11/29/00 02:20 PM Re: Unununium RhubarbCommando 12/07/00 10:29 AM Re: Omens of the End belMarduk 11/27/00 02:03 AM Re: Omens of the End Marty 11/27/00 02:56 AM Re: Omens of the End jmh 11/27/00 08:19 AM Re: The Purest Omen of the End Faldage 12/07/00 09:42 PM
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