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Element 110 Now Darmstadtium

Posted by michael on from the ununoctium-fiasco-safely-behind-us dept.

photoblur writes "It's time to update your periodic table of the elements! Element 110 has been officially named 'darmstadtium' (Ds), after the GSI lab in Darmstadt, Germany. The GSI lab has also been officially recognized for discovering element 111."

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  1. Name of Element 111 by yanestra · · Score: 2, Funny

    I propose Rodgauium for the name of element 111. This town (Rodgau) is even moring boring than Darmstadt. (No wonder one famous band calls itself the Rodgau Monotones...)

    1. Re:Name of Element 111 by FileNotFound · · Score: 3, Funny

      I think "Nobodycaresanymoreium" would be a great name for element 111.

      I mean seriously, how many samples of 111 exist in non lab enviroments? For how long?

      I am confused by the purpose behind this research...seems like one of those "because we can" things.

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    2. Re:Name of Element 111 by big_O_of_n! · · Score: 2, Funny

      Of course, when they get to element 118 (in significant quantities), "because we can" would be a perfectly good reason for creating a metalloid noble gas.

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  2. Wondeful... by Cyno01 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think i'll go play a game of half life to celebrate.:p

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  3. population: tire by cloudship_tacitus · · Score: 3, Funny

    i will not rest until the naming of strongbadium, an element in the burninating gasses.

  4. I'm just waiting... by ENOENT · · Score: 2, Funny

    for scientists to discover adamantium, omnium, and unobtainium.

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  5. Element: Slashdotium found by phunhippy · · Score: 3, Funny

    The IETF has just announced discovery of the 31337th element named Slashdotium. This new element has perplexed engineers for many years now as it seems to simply appear out of nowhere and bring poor websites to their very knee's then dissapearing just as fast. Even stranger is the occasional apparent repeats that happen once in a while. Engineers theorize that the Slashdotium element hits some web sites twice at a rate of about 1 in 9. They are still trying to find out what is causing the repeated appearence of Slashdotium to the same site twice and one radical engineer believes its related to the element dumbasseditorium.

  6. Name for elem. 111 by nacturation · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think an apt name for the 111th element is Binarium.

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  7. My Idea for a name. by jameskojiro · · Score: 1, Funny

    Un-obtain-ium: Name for element 110 on the periodic table. decays so rapidly you never see it.

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  8. no no no by ed.han · · Score: 2, Funny

    my vote would have been for SCOsuxium: much better ring to it, after all.

    but imagine if those physics guys were slashdotters: we'd have

    goatsexium
    hotgritsium
    firstpostium
    beowulfiu m

    and of course:

    cowboynealium

    ed

    1. Re:no no no by alatesystems · · Score: 2, Funny
      natalieportmantium


      Chris Benard

  9. Curse you Darmstadtium! by Kenja · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now the periodic table I have tattooed on my arm is WORTHLESS!

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    1. Re:Curse you Darmstadtium! by Soko · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well, that's what you get for not taking into account the element of suprise.

      Soko

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