Beerball Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/8/11886636/new-elements-named-periodic-table Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BringBackFergy Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 Why not shorten one of the proposed names...like Nohanissimo...to "Idiot"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Poojer Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 what happened to numbers 114 and 116???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Until they name a Feynmenium and Gellmannium, I'm boycotting the periodic table. Back to earth, air, fire, and water for me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloBill Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Back to earth, air, fire, water and idiots for me... Fixed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxum Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Names should not be longer than the artificial elements last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4merper4mer Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 What about the obvious Elementy McElementface? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Fixed Idiots aren't an element. Idiocy is a basic force, however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Idiots aren't an element. Idiocy is a basic force, however. Like entropy. Things turning into crap is a law of nature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobRyanFan Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 How about Rob? Symbol cold be RR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unbillievable Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 It's not news worthy until they discover Adamantium and Vibranium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 what happened to numbers 114 and 116???? I am guessing they weren't synthesized yet? Nothing in life is purely sequential. Ain't a chemist, but I stayed in a Holiday Inn Express. I wonder if this like a 3 or 5, etc... Cylinder internal combustion engine thing? They had ones, twos, then 4, 6, etc... What I am saying... Maybe it is just too complicated to nail the 114 and 116 down just yet? Should I demand a refund from Holiday Inn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 what happened to numbers 114 and 116???? They're already named. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 They're already named. I am enquiring about that refund as we speak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 I am enquiring about that refund as we speak. You're not entirely wrong...they're already named because they were easier to identify. There's a whole group of elements that were created around the same time (roughly, 111 to 118). But "creating" and "discovering" are two different things...you have to collect the evidence that you created them, which involves observation of decay products and working backwards to prove that the energies of the decay products could only come from. Then you write up the paper and have it published. Then it's "discovered." (That's something people don't understand about "discovery" - it's sharing it with others that counts. The Vikings and most likely Chinese got to America before Columbus...but Columbus discovered America because he was the first to come back and say "You're not gonna believe this ****...") And it's really difficult, too - one of these elements, they managed to create three atoms of it. Maybe four. They're not sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gugny Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Until they name a Feynmenium and Gellmannium, I'm boycotting the periodic table. Back to earth, air, fire, and water for me... Do you remember dancing in September? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Do you remember dancing in September? No. But I do remember December, the 21st to be exact. Love was changing the minds of pretenders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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