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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. Oh those funny Germans! by stardeep · · Score: 0, Troll

    > but at least the Germans can laugh...

    Sure! If they're homophobic bastards who know far less about gay sex than they think, that is.

    --
    Sentimentality is merely the Bank Holiday of cynicism.
    - Oscar Wilde