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- From: arsmith@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Alan Smith)
- Newsgroups: alt.cesium
- Subject: Re: I've waited long enough
- Message-ID: <Sep16.035556.89619@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: 16 Sep 92 03:55:56 GMT
- References: <1992Sep15.231415.19919@convex.com>
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- In article <1992Sep15.231415.19919@convex.com> cowles@convex.com (John Cowles) writes:
- >I haven't seen mention of any of the HEAVYs here. What about the
- >HEAVY guys after lawrencium? I'm kind of partial to the unnils:
- >quadium, pentium, hexium
- >anyone for septium, octium, nonium and decium?
- >
- >Did the element namers get bored, I wonder?
- >
- I brought them up, and somebody else did too. We're both waiting for 114
- (Ununquadrium) to come along.
-
- Apparently, there are too many chemists out there discovering elements and none
- of them can agree on who was first. So the IUPAC stepped in and developed this
- digit-by-digit naming system...
-