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New elements are named by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUPAC/IUPAP_Joint_Working_Party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUPAC/IUPAP_Joint_Working_Part... They ty
by mrguyorama 2y ago
New elements are named by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUPAC/IUPAP_Joint_Working_Party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUPAC/IUPAP_Joint_Working_Part...
They typically try to honor someone or something relevant to particle physics or nuclear physics. So, no fun allowed, unless you are a physicist in which case you probably find naming things after historical physics figures fun.
- NeoTar 2y agoI’m a physicist (completely unrelated field though), but I want to name it after Ytterby in Sweden so rather than having four elements named after one town, we now have five… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6lGe5jgZgI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6lGe5jgZgI