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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."

6 of 291 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Natural vs ??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Basically, it's produced in a lab, in artificial conditions that are impossible to reproduce in nature.

    Isn't this horribly dangerous? I mean if the scientists create a new element that is extremely reactive, we could have a huge reaction eating away the entire Earth.

    As always, I just hope the scientists know what they are doing when they start messing around with God's creation.

  2. Re:Element 101? by Shriek · · Score: -1, Troll
    Bright Orange hair dye, of course!


    Put down the crack pipe sir.
  3. Hi you guys by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I would really really love to suck you off. I hope you don't mind if I ask my brother to join us? I love him dearly.

  4. Re:Darmstadtium? Ewwww by billsf · · Score: -1, Troll

    Indeed, another stupid name for a new element. Been hoping that the naming commities can get to a 'J' and a 'Q' element, which would complete the whole Roman alphabet.

    Platinum is another rather silly name as all other elements in this class end in 'ium'. "Aluminum" is ofcourse a brand name for 'aluminium'. Some misguided American texts actualy make this mistake.

  5. 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
    1. Re:Oh those funny Germans! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      First of all, there's no such thing as 'gay sex'. Sex implies reproduction, it also implies being mature in order to handle a member of the opposite sex. What two men or two women do together is not sex, it is masturbation. There's no learning of another's body since gays play with the same type of body. This is because homosexuality is a form of immaturity. When you are 8 and play with members of your own sex, that's childhood. Normal people, as they age, start to get interested in members of the opposite sex, gays don't. It's simply a disease.
      There's no need to get all excited about defending your disease. You don't see cancer patients call other people cancerphobic, do you?
      Just accept your disease, stop calling it sex, and leave normal people alone.