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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:Proposals for element 111 and 112 by ajs318 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Well, we already have a Nobelium and a Mendelevium. So how about Nobelievium? We could give it the chemical symbol Bs.

    I'm expecting a large quantity of Bs to be discovered, once it has been identified!

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  2. It was actually discovered first in ... by ratfynk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Russia where the element names you.

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