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- From: scottm@intime.intime.com (Scott Michel)
- Subject: Re: Caesium
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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 19:50:25 GMT
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- In article <SHABBY.92Sep14222244@podge.mit.edu> shabby@Athena.MIT.EDU (Chris Shabsin) writes:
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- From: shabby@Athena.MIT.EDU (Chris Shabsin)
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- In article <TK.92Sep14143545@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu> tk@ai.mit.edu (Tom Knight) writes:
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- Date: 14 Sep 92 18:35:45 GMT
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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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- I for one have never seen it spelled Caesium.
- NEVER. Well, not until now. It's probably some sort of British
- periodic table...
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- Have you ever taken Latin? "ae" is a Greek and Latin dipthong, pronounced
- as a long "i", e.g "Kih-see-um". Probably more European than British.
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- --
- -Chris Shabsin
- -shabby@athena.mit.edu
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