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- From: uug@cuc.ab.ca (William Graham)
- Newsgroups: alt.cesium
- Subject: Re: Welcome!!
- Message-ID: <UUG.92Sep11053027@pogo.cuc.ab.ca>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 12:30:27 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: tenney@med.unc.edu's message of Thu, 10 Sep 1992 05:18:20 GMT
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- Charles R. Tenney (tenney@med.unc.edu) writes:
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- > Me, I'm a xenon enthusiast, but I like krypton too. Both can be used in
- > gas ionization chambers for x-ray detection.
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- There is one small point of nomenclature of the Noble Gasses which has always
- bothered me: helium is not a metal, so its name should not end in '-ium'.
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- So, I would like to propose that He be renamed as "helion".
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- > Do you think this newsgroup might belong in the alt.music.heavy-metal
- > heirarchy?
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- Not until The Osmium Isotopes make an appearance here.
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- - William Graham -
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