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- From: arsmith@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Alan Smith)
- Subject: Re: Caesium
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 23:33:19 GMT
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- In article <TK.92Sep14143545@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu> tk@ai.mit.edu (Tom Knight) writes:
- >I'm very disappointed in this newsgroup. Nowhere have we had an
- >adequate discussion of the fundamental issue:
- >
- >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"?
- >
- Well, my periodic table that i keep near my 'puter says "Cosium" so there!
- Frankly, so long as everybody knows what you're talking about, you can call
- it "shirley."
-
- >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?
-
- You mean, besides the fact that if you rip them apart, odds are the Flouride is gonna wind up with the electron?
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