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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. Colbertium by saddino · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Bank on it...

  2. Good news everybody! by Bozzio · · Score: 0, Redundant

    We could name it Jumbonium!

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    I just pooped your party.
  3. Unobtainium by gigowiz · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Not available anywhere!

  4. Missing Option! by Fred.cpp · · Score: 0, Redundant

    CowboyNealium (I'ts a heavy element, right?)

  5. How about ... by Sukhbir · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Ubuntium

  6. Unobtainium by iplayfast · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This stuff is so useful, that it can be used with any experiment to obtain the results you want.

    So let's call 112 UnObtainium so we can finally do all those experiments.