Four New Elements Finally Get Their Official Names, Added To Periodic Table (universityherald.com) 102
Scientists have updated the periodic table to add four new elements, namely: Nihonium, Moscovium, Tennessine and Oganesson. The super-heavy elements discovered by scientists from Japan, Russia, and America, complete the seventh row of the table. Their inclusion also marks the first additions since 2011. From an article on University Herald: Now that the new elements have their names, the seventh row of the periodic table is now complete. The approval was done by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). The elements were confirmed back in January. They were assigned temporary names and symbols: ununtrium (Uut), ununpentium (Uup), ununseptium (Uus), and ununoctium (Uuo). It was noted that the teams of Russian, American and Japanese researchers behind the discoveries were given the task of naming the elements that they uncovered. They submitted their proposals in June.
What ??? I was assured... (Score:5, Funny)
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HomerSimpsonium have been better than the nationalist oriented names they gave shamelessly gave elements that apply to all of humanity. Next they'll be calling it Hitlarium and Castronium.
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HomerSimpsonium have been better than the nationalist oriented names they gave shamelessly gave elements that apply to all of humanity. Next they'll be calling it Hitlarium and Castronium.
They already named one after you.
It's called "uranium", you asshole.
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Polonium...
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Discovered by a polo player?
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By a Polish Scientist working in Paris. Marie Curie? You might have heard of her?
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I like the implication that Adamantium was discovered by Adam Ant.
Re:What ??? I was assured... (Score:5, Insightful)
It's rare that elements are named after people, though there are a few examples. Places just seem less controversial. There's a gentleman's agreement that Element 137 should be Feynmanium, and I will be gravely disappointed if he doesn't eventually get that honor. (For those who don't know, "137", referring to the fine structure constant, is to physicists what "42" is to geek culture - chances are good it's the combination to a physicist's briefcase, for example.)
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> Element 137 should be Feynmanium
Indeeded. Feynman had this quote about it:
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Feynman's quote came 69 years later. I'd say element 137 should be named Sommerfeldium.
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Nationalist? Well yes if you squint enough but no if you actually try to understand naming: Americium was created in America (USA - during the Manhattan project), Scandium was found in Sweden (Scandinavia), Francium was detected in France etc. Neither Hitler nor Castro were scientists, those that have elements named after them are scientists that have made significant contributions - with Nobelium being the exception.
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...that HomerSimpsonium was a viable name.
It was passed over as it is a single use element...
You can only use it to make Doh!
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It's supposed to be called Elerium-115. Not Moscovium-115. Damned uncultured scientists...
Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde (Score:5, Funny)
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Totally agreed.
now i have to buy the white album again (Score:2)
this is just a scheme by physics publishers to sell more periodic table placemats and wall charts as well as to get new words to spell on t-shirts
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Shouldn't Pinkium be matched with Brainium?
"What do you want to do tonight, Brain"
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Brain: Any questions?
Pinky: Yes, do you know the way to San Jose?
[Later]
Brain: Make a right at Oxnard.
Pinky: Come again?
Brain: It's the way to San Jose. You get to Oxnard and make a right.
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You misspelled "the racist, uneducated, inbred, wondering why they can't keep a job, religious minority".
The names are...... (Score:5, Informative)
Amazing decision to not include the names of the four elements in a summary telling us that the four elements were just named.
Re: The names are...... (Score:1)
Wait, what? The names are in the first sentence of the summary. The numbers are not in the summary, though; thanks, Ol' Soc!
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Wait, what? The names are in the first sentence of the summary. The numbers are not in the summary, though; thanks, Ol' Soc!
Wat? I'm not certain if the summary was updated, or maybe I should have had a second cup of coffee before posting! they are definitely there now!
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No, it's the temporary names that were provided - ununtrium (Uut), ununpentium (Uup), ununseptium (Uus), and ununoctium (Uuo). The names that Olsoc mentioned are the final permanent names.
They mentioned that TN is the second state to be represented in the periodic table. Which was the first - Indium (IN)? Or was Indium named after India?
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No, it's the temporary names that were provided - ununtrium (Uut), ununpentium (Uup), ununseptium (Uus), and ununoctium (Uuo).
Unless the post was edited, those are all in the summary section, but the first sentence of TFS has the new names.
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I think the first was Californium
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> ununtrium, ununpentium, ununseptium and ununoctium
What are they, a ham sandwich?
Re:The names are...... (Score:5, Funny)
Pity they gave up so soon, I'm convinced Ytterby had still more names in it,
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Pity they gave up so soon, I'm convinced Ytterby had still more names in it,
A record that will never be broken.
The new names don't have much pizzazz though, do they?
Harambeium?
We need an internet poll so we can name at least one of them Elementy McElementfaceium.
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Oh, if it's an internet poll I'd be campaigning hard to get the next element named "Hydrogen". If you're gonna troll, troll as hard as you can.
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Oh, if it's an internet poll I'd be campaigning hard to get the next element named "Hydrogen". If you're gonna troll, troll as hard as you can.
Lowdrogen?
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The summary has the names (or it does now, anyway) but not the numbers or the symbols, which would have been nice to include. Would've been good to include some etymology as well.
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The summary has the names (or it does now, anyway) but not the numbers or the symbols, which would have been nice to include. Would've been good to include some etymology as well.
Yeah - not certain if that was dumassium poisoning making me stupid or what. My most credible defense is that I was something like the third person to post on the story, and it might have been fixed. Or caffeine deprivation. Or a dumass moment.
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The summary has the names (or it does now, anyway) but not the numbers or the symbols, which would have been nice to include. Would've been good to include some etymology as well.
Google is your friend... In any case, here is a better link with the numbers, symbols, and etymology...
http://www.sciencealert.com/it... [sciencealert.com]
and... here is a link to a large image for printing out, you know... for wall art... (grin)
https://www.iupac.org/cms/wp-c... [iupac.org]
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It would also have been nice to include information as how the new elements can actually be used. For example, would it be possible to power a new giant robot using one of those four? And would you at least have enough power to seriously mess up Tokyo before radioactive decay wiped out your power source?
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https://iupac.org/iupac-is-nam... [iupac.org]
"IUPAC is naming the four new elements Nihonium, Moscovium, Tennessine, and Oganesson"
E-115 (Score:2)
Canonically, element 115 is Elerium [ufopaedia.org]...
Lemmium (Score:2)
What Next? (Score:1)
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Electron shells matter for chemical properties, not for nuclear stability.
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You guys are full of sh.
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Now that the seventh shell is complete the next man-made element will have to be in a new shell. Does this make it much harder, or impossible, to create element 119?
Not on account of completing an electron shell, but yes, new ideas are needed to extend this list further - they seem to be at an end of the current methods.
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Now that the seventh shell is complete the next man-made element will have to be in a new shell.
Does this make it much harder, or impossible, to create element 119?
Naah. Piece of cake. It'll be called Trumpium. It'll be a huuuuge element. Really classy.
It's primary chemical properties are to insult any other elements that compete in chemical reactions with it.
It is radioactive, and emits particles called twitterons, but only at 3 AM local time.
Its spectral properties are orange. Just orange.
Its electron-shell structure displays a comb-over to cover the lack of structure in certain areas around it.
And finally, all of the elements that it forms with are right-handed. Do
so $250 for a new college text book to cover this (Score:3)
so $250 for a new college text book to cover this
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When I think of government-involvement with school textbooks, I immediately think of the Texas Board of Education. [rationalwiki.org]
I welcome government efforts to reduce the price of textbooks (and thus the price of education.) It's government-involvement with their content that would concern me.
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I've been preaching that for 20 years -- chronic double-digit increases are driven by easy loans.
As with a car, people wince at a $2000 radio upgrade, but an additional $30/month, sign me up!
Thus do large annual increases turn into small increases in your monthly loan.
Add in politicians favoring easy loans so all can get educations, and loan companies who don't care about risks because the government will pick up the pieces of a bubble burst, and you have the perfect storm.
One way to wrench it back down is
Sharpie, help me! (Score:2)
None of them are a strong enough (Score:2)
Ah, the anonymous "Proper English" authority... (Score:2)
I assume you're prepared to dedicate equal time to whinging about "Platinium" and "Molybdenium", never mind "Ferrium", "Aurium", "Plumbium", "Stannium"...
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The "um" is the suffix, not "ium".
given the task of naming the elements (Score:2)
Sounds like a task for the internet to me...
ElementMcElementFace sounds about right to me
Damn, I feel old! (Score:2)
When I was in school, there were only 103 elements.
I'm disappointed. (Score:2)
I was hoping for Uridium to get in there. Didn't these scientists have C64s?
Why not this one? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm disappointed that ElementMcElementyface wasn't an option...
The Fifth Element (Score:1)
They forgot Multipassium
They totally missed a great oportunity. (Score:2)
ununoctium should have been called octarine.
Oganesson (Og) (Score:1)
Am I the only one that read and was hoping that Og was actually Orgasson?