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- From: tk@ai.mit.edu (Tom Knight)
- Newsgroups: alt.cesium
- Subject: Caesium
- Message-ID: <TK.92Sep14143545@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 18:35:45 GMT
- Sender: news@ai.mit.edu
- Distribution: alt.cesium
- Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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- I'm very disappointed in this newsgroup. Nowhere have we had an
- adequate discussion of the fundamental issue:
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- Is our fair element called Cesium or Caesium. My fine high quality
- wall-sized periodic chart minces no words, and comes down hard on the
- side of Caesium. We all know, of course, that it comes from the latin
- Caesius, meaning blue-white, so how do you people get off forgetting
- this crucial "a"?
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- Since Cs is the most electropositive element, surely there must be
- something interesting about CsF, mixing it with the most electronegative?
- Who can give us the definitive story?
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