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Four Newly Discovered Elements Receive Names (theverge.com)
Press2ToContinue quotes a report from The Verge: The proposed names for recently discovered superheavy elements are: Nihonium and symbol Nh, for the element 113; Moscovium and symbol Mc, for the element 115; Tennessine and symbol Ts, for the element 117; Oganesson and symbol Og, for the element 118. This isn't finalized. Not sure I even like some of these, and maybe you feel the same way. Above are the proposed names that will substitute for the current placeholders (e.g., ununpentium, ununseptium). Nilhonium, Moscovium, and Tennesine are all named for places; Oganessen is named for the Russian physicist Yuri Oganessian. But we have until November to lobby for other names. Here's a chance to go down in history and name an element on the periodic table. How about naming one Elementy McElementface?
Element 115 should be named Elerium, of course http://www.ufopaedia.org/index...
Elements being named after locations is not exactly new, so I don't understand the submitters whining.
Terbium, Holmium, Ytterbium, Erbium, Thulium, Lutetium, Hassium... The list goes on...
Just so all the non-Americans can have something else to whinge about besides Aluminum.
This article is tagged Japan because "Nihonium takes its name from the Japanese name for Japan and was the first new element discovered there, at the RIKEN lab." ( http://www.popsci.com/four-new... )
I should put something clever here. Maybe someday.
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New Elements Named - Periodic Table of Videos :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
how cute, you think this has to do with science.
Naming rights are a reflection of power and prestige.
So. . . Element Privilege ??? /boggle
How about naming one Elementy McElementfaceium?
FTFY
LEMMIUM! Where's Lemmium? The heaviest element possible.
You're looking for quotes? See my journal.
You literally just repeated a joke that's in the summary.
Jesus Fucking Christ. Never mind not RTFA, Slashdotter's don't even RTFS anymore!
And still no Daltonium. It's simply wrong that the scientist who first came up with the modern concept of what an element actually is (and which led to the periodic table itself) is ignored while far less known names get the honour.
Come on, if you're going to insert letters the element's name, at least call it "Nihilonium" - an element that doesn't care whether anything continues to exist or not. ;)
Maybe, but I can barely make out what you're saying because your horse is too high.
They'll probably just get reclassified as dwarf elements one day.
Just because your own knowledge of a word ends with the greek origin doesn't mean that the word itself didn't enter the greek language itself as a foreign word.
When I'm president, all new elements will be named after me and it will be tremendous. They will be classy, classy elements. Not loser elements like Nihonium.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Yes, I don't know what's wrong with names like ununseptium, at least you can remember them. It's not like people need catchy names for them when they use them in the kitchen. As far as I know, they only exist (briefly) because scientists like to go "hey, quick, come and look, I managed to make one with 117 protons!"
Well,...since the placeholder names start with "unun", how about:
Unty McUntface.
I can't see anything wrong with that.
In which of the European Union's 24 official languages at last count should a name for something discovered in Europe be meaningful? I think they choose Greek because it's the oldest European civilization to have become literate, with whose history Europeans speaking one of the other 23 languages are expected to be familiar.
Yeah, it decays into lower elements like Redditium. One of the forms this happens is the so called slashdot beta decay.
Relax. 99% of new element names are $town+ium. Even $researcher_name+ium fell out of use.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
We associated the idea of descriptive names with other cultures, and do not call our daughters things like "cloud-flower" (although we do use Fern, Ivy, April, etc).
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I thought that's Yourmomium.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
... it's elementary!
Oh, I'm sorry sir, I thought you were referring to me, Mr. Wensleydale.
Well had I followed this naming scheme my first one would have probably been named "cries but doesn't eat". The second one may have been named angry shitcannon though.
Time to offend someone