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Chemical Element 110 To Be Named

Posted by simoniker on from the soda-company-to-sponsor-pepsium dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to Nature Magazine, chemists will vote in Ottawa, Canada this week, and are expected to approve the chemical element 110's informal moniker, 'darmstadtium', and give it the chemical symbol Ds. The title honors the Laboratory for Heavy Ion Research (called GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany, where the substance was first made. It seems that 'disputes over claimed sightings of new elements have [previously] led to acrimonious and nationalistic battles over naming', but not in this case."

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  1. Re:Dutch joke from local perspective by WTFmonkey · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So, you guys are in other places, huh? I thought the US was the only country with computers. Except for Japan, but they just make video games. I didn't know the internet was hooked up to other countries! That must be one big phone line, ha ha!

  2. Some times nationalistic names are appropriate. by biogeojeff · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Take Europium. It is the most reactive of the rare earth elements, but there are no commercial applications for europium metal.

  3. how about... by MoFoQ · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Bs, Bullshitium since this year seems to be one full of it....with SCO and sh.....schtuff