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Un-Un-Pentium On Your Periodic Table of the Elements?

Posted by Unknown on from the waiting-for-unobtanium dept.

PolygamousRanchKid writes, quoting Forbes "Researchers at Sweden's Lund University have announced that they've been able to confirm the existence of element 115 on the periodic table. This research team isn't the first to create element 115, which is currently known as ununpentium. The first claim that ununpentium had been synthesized in a lab was by a joint group of Russian and American researchers, who believed that they created it in their lab in 2004."

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  1. It's not element 115 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Un-un-pentium is element 114.999997

  2. In Other News by UnknowingFool · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Gillette Company today announced plans to create element 117. A Gillette spokesperson was quoted as saying "115 protons? Screw it boys, we'll go to 117 protons!"

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    Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
  3. Re:so... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    my matter transporter

    We call that a "truck". Or "lorry", if you're British.

    affordable flying cars

    We call that one a "helicopter".

    and free electricity

    We call that one "reflashing your 'smart' meter"

  4. Good they didn't have this naming years ago ... by ggraham412 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... or else poor Sulphur would be "Unsexium".