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Well, it's a bit selfish really. It's a terribly interesting outcome as it is, but the particle physicists in the 70's and 80's got to have all the fun.
by cshimmin 8y ago
Well, it's a bit selfish really. It's a terribly interesting outcome as it is, but the particle physicists in the 70's and 80's got to have all the fun.
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- da_chicken 8y agoSort of how the chemists in the 18th and 19th centuries got to have all the fun. "I'll call it 'Aluminum.' No, wait! 'Aluminium!' Uh... ship that first print run of my book with the wrong spelling to North America. Nobody will notice!" "I'll call it Potassium, because it's found in potash." "That's not very creative." "Fine, I'll call it Kalium and give it a symbol of K." "Where'd you get Kalium from?" "Well, it's very alkaline, you see. It's from potash, after all." "That's still not very creative!" "Fine. We'll call it Potassium, but give it a symbol of K. Happy now?"
- vidarh 8y agoIt's still called Kalium in a bunch of languages.
- staticautomatic 8y agoIs that also the case for "natrium?"
- vidarh 8y agoYep. Natrium is used in Norwegian at least.
- Confusion 8y agoCertainly: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/natrium https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/natrium And those are also mostly the countries using Kalium: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/kalium https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/kalium
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- charriu 8y agoGerman has both of those.
- da_chicken 8y agoYes, but that's not funny. The story about Aluminum isn't completely correct, either.