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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. It's so obvious by Wonko+the+Sane · · Score: 5, Funny

    Colbertium

    1. Re:It's so obvious by Fast+Thick+Pants · · Score: 3, Funny

      Rhymes with Barium? That'll be a boon for Tom Lehrer...

    2. Re:It's so obvious by kimvette · · Score: 4, Funny

      I disagree.

      It is an unstable, short-lived element. I vote cowboynealium!

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    3. Re:It's so obvious by Kidbro · · Score: 3, Funny

      It is an unstable, short-lived element

      Windowsium?

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    4. Re:It's so obvious by Nefarious+Wheel · · Score: 4, Funny

      That'll be a boon for Tom Lehrer...

      First you get your mod points spent

      Then you name the element

      Which the trolls will then lament

      Then you rant then you rant then you rant

      Then for real fun

      Use a good pun

      Give it real class! Name it TommyLeherium!

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  2. Best name ever by splatacaster · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unobtainium

    1. Re:Best name ever by GodfatherofSoul · · Score: 4, Funny

      Except they did, so you'd have to name it Obtainedium.

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    2. Re:Best name ever by troll8901 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Unobtainium

      ... also known as element 404.

  3. Good News Everyone! by strength_of_10_men · · Score: 5, Funny

    They've found the Jumbonium that I've misplaced!

  4. Old school. by lanes · · Score: 5, Funny

    Upsidaisium. Or wonderflonium.

  5. Just give up by dmomo · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's going to be something like: BankofAmericaElementium

  6. all hail.... by somecreepyoldguy · · Score: 4, Funny

    hypnotoadium

  7. Re:Serious Question: Why do Germans outperform? by Hinhule · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why dont you say what you really mean?

    Fine, I'm a little bit better than the rest of you slackers.

    Happy now?

  8. The by JustOK · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Element formerly known as ununb"i. And give it some funky symbol

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  9. Re:assuming a trend by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 4, Funny

    reallyfuckingheavium

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  10. the discovery was announced at a meeting by circletimessquare · · Score: 4, Funny

    in a large hall previously devoted to gymnastics

    so i propose gymnasium, auditorium, or symposium

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  11. Re:Interesting Fact by Deadstick · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the early days of nuke research, a number of physicists picked up dosages of plutonium that worried the AEC, so it instituted a program of measuring the Pu content of their urine once a year ad infinitum and monitoring for health effects. Those people refer to themselves as the IPPU Club...

    rj

  12. Once the news reaches Harvard... by W2IRT · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lehrerium!

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  13. elem 112 by Mysund · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hundredandtwelvium

  14. 116 comment and no one mentioned this? by koutbo6 · · Score: 5, Funny

    isn't it obvious?
    Tiberium!
    Now its just a matter of time before the rise of nod.

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  15. Re:Emergentium by jshackles · · Score: 5, Funny

    No it's 0118 999 881 999 119 7253

  16. Re:What have the Africans ever done for us? by ConsumerOfMany · · Score: 4, Funny

    Didn't they discover the coke bottle too? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080801/

  17. Re:assuming a trend by Abstrackt · · Score: 5, Funny

    yourmomium?

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  18. Re:What have the Africans ever done for us? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    So basically, coffee and beer.