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Americium, Einsteinium, Unobtanium also show chemistry isn't so uptight as suggested.
by dylan604 11mo ago
Americium, Einsteinium, Unobtanium also show chemistry isn't so uptight as suggested.
- knallfrosch 11mo agoAmerica is named after some author writing about a "New World." America is sometimes erroneously used to refer to only one of the states instead of the whole continent. Einstein doesn't tell me anything, unlike Müller (miller) and Schmied (Schmiede = Forge)
- jrowen 11mo agoUnobtanium is fiction from the movie Avatar lol Notoriously bad exposition I might add ("This is unobtanium. This is what we're here for!").
- silvester23 11mo agoUnobtanium was a thing in fiction long before Avatar.
- hidroto 11mo agounobtainium predates Avatar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium and at least that exposition makes more sense then the "fountain of youth brain juice" in the sequel, when the humans can literally reincarnate themselves without having to cross interstellar space to do it.
- dylan604 11mo agoMy physics teacher in high school used unobtanium in class and was the first I recall using it. This was way before Core or Avatar. After reading your wiki link, it fit perfectly with the definition of a frictionless, massless pulley use. It's funny, because I'm one to use movie references in casual conversation like it's nothing, yet my use was definitely not in this case
- a96 11mo agoAvatar was a famously wrong use of the very old term for something that is (no longer) available anywhere.
- marcosdumay 11mo ago> Unobtanium I think you mean Unununium.
- dylan604 11mo ago[dead]