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Periodic Table To Welcome Two New Elements

Posted by Soulskill on from the spellchecker-database-grows-by-two dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "Chemistry's periodic table can soon welcome livermorium and flerovium, two newly named elements, which were announced Thursday (Dec. 1) by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. The new names will undergo a five-month public comment period before the official paperwork gets processed and they show up on the table. Three other new elements just recently finished this process, filling in the 110, 111 and 112 spots."

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  1. Rejected again! by cashman73 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will they ever name an element Colbertium, after Stephen T. Colbert, DFA?

    1. Re:Rejected again! by tripleevenfall · · Score: 3, Funny

      Hasbeenium?

    2. Re:Rejected again! by JavaBear · · Score: 5, Funny

      Or Roadrunnium, because it has a half life so fast you won't be able to catch it.

    3. Re:Rejected again! by circletimessquare · · Score: 3, Funny

      Strange.

      I've read comment threads where name droppping Stephen Colbert makes you look like a genius compared to everyone else posting, and here we have a context where name dropping Stephen Colbert makes you look like an idiot.

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    4. Re:Rejected again! by JavaBear · · Score: 4, Funny

      Of course after Roadrunnium, we need Wileeum and Coyotium, though it'll be unwise to put either of those in the vicinity of the highly unstable Ajaxium.
      The proximity of either Eileeium or Coyotium with Ajaxium is known to create a localized reality nullification field, and we all know how much serious scientists hates it when reality stops taking them seriously, and starts making or changing it's own rules.

    5. Re:Rejected again! by ackthpt · · Score: 1, Funny

      Will they ever name an element Colbertium, after Stephen T. Colbert, DFA?

      Insovietrussiaelementnamesyounium

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  2. When does comment period begin for Element 115? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have a number of people to coordinate in order to make sure it ends up with the name Elerium.

  3. It's so nice to see... by eegad · · Score: 5, Funny

    this table is updated periodically.

    1. Re:It's so nice to see... by Nationless · · Score: 4, Funny

      I imagine renaming it the sporadic table of the elements wouldn't go down too well with the academics.

    2. Re:It's so nice to see... by mr1911 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, to be pedantic, it's not updated periodically -- that would imply that it gets updated on a regular basis with a predictable cycle. It's updated sporadically.

      To be more specific, the periodic table can be thought of as a fungus. The elements are the mycelia of the fungus, and once in a while the table produces fruiting bodies (like mushrooms) that will produce spores for the periodic table to reproduce. It is these fruiting bodies that are the new elements. The spores will be released from these new elements when moisture and temperature conditions are right -- and with luck, a given spore may land upon the wall of another elementary school classroom and become a new periodic table of the elements.

      Yet he still doesn't know why he isn't invited to parties.

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  4. Re:Real elements - or theoretical? by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Growing up, and being taught in school "elements cannot be broken down any further."

    It's always nice to run into a fellow member of the Class of 1827 here on /.

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  5. Re:Real elements - or theoretical? by ChrisMaple · · Score: 3, Funny

    But .. But .. Scientific papers are built out of molecules.

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