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Periodic Table Gets a New, Unnamed Element

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the so-many-ideas dept.

koavf writes "More than a decade after experiments first produced a single atom of 'super-heavy' element 112, a team of German scientists has been credited with its discovery, but it has yet to be named. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has temporarily named the element ununbium, as 'ununbi' means 'one one two' in Latin; but the team now has the task of proposing its official name." Slashdotium? Taconium? Man, I shoulda gone into science so I could have named something sweet that kids have to memorize in classes.

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  1. Since the Germans discovered it.... by macdaddy357 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Germans discovered it, so it will be called Nazium. I keed! I keed!

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    How ya like dat?
  2. Re:So your obviously a racist troll, but anyway... by tenco · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Calculus. Leibniz and Newton are not co-inventors - not really anyway. Basically they both built on work done by others including al-Haythem and other decidedly non-German mathematicians. The difference is that Newton did something truly amazing (and innovative) with it.

    Lebnitz's notation is in widespread use today. And what about the binary system?

    Quantum physics. As you say 'developed part of the foundation.' Quantum theory developed gradually, with contributions of a lot of people from a lot of places.

    Planck started it.

    Einstein was from Austria by the way.

    Wrong.

    I have a few more:

    • David Hilbert
    • Werner Heisenberg (uncertainty principle)
    • Fritz Haber (Haber-Bosch process)
    • Walter Hermann Nernst (third law of thermodynamics)
    • Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann (discovery of nuclear fission)
    • Robert Koch
    • Wolfgang Paul (paul trap)