Periodic Table Gets a New, Unnamed Element 461
koavf writes "More than a decade after experiments first produced a single atom of 'super-heavy' element 112, a team of German scientists has been credited with its discovery, but it has yet to be named. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has temporarily named the element ununbium, as 'ununbi' means 'one one two' in Latin; but the team now has the task of proposing its official name." Slashdotium? Taconium? Man, I shoulda gone into science so I could have named something sweet that kids have to memorize in classes.
It's so obvious (Score:5, Funny)
Colbertium
Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It's so obvious (Score:4, Funny)
Rhymes with Barium? That'll be a boon for Tom Lehrer...
Best name ever (Score:5, Funny)
Good News Everyone! (Score:5, Funny)
Old school. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Best name ever (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's so obvious (Score:5, Funny)
I disagree.
It is an unstable, short-lived element. I vote cowboynealium!
Nobody is Going to Chance a Vote (Score:3, Funny)
We've just received word that the Oval Office has mandated the new element be called "Obamanium." That whole voting thing is so-o-o-o-o-o 2008 Democratic Republic...
Just give up (Score:5, Funny)
It's going to be something like: BankofAmericaElementium
Cardboardium. (Score:2, Funny)
all hail.... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Serious Question: Why do Germans outperform? (Score:3, Funny)
Why dont you say what you really mean?
Fine, I'm a little bit better than the rest of you slackers.
Happy now?
The (Score:5, Funny)
"Element formerly known as ununb"i. And give it some funky symbol
Re:Best name ever (Score:5, Funny)
Unobtainium
... also known as element 404.
Re:Bushonium (Score:1, Funny)
Dubyum?
Re:assuming a trend (Score:5, Funny)
the discovery was announced at a meeting (Score:5, Funny)
in a large hall previously devoted to gymnastics
so i propose gymnasium, auditorium, or symposium
Re:Interesting Fact (Score:5, Funny)
In the early days of nuke research, a number of physicists picked up dosages of plutonium that worried the AEC, so it instituted a program of measuring the Pu content of their urine once a year ad infinitum and monitoring for health effects. Those people refer to themselves as the IPPU Club...
rj
Once the news reaches Harvard... (Score:5, Funny)
Lehrerium!
Re:A semantic quibble about these things (rant?) (Score:1, Funny)
Sure, the atom [intel.com] is a tad underpowered, but they should be able to run half-life.
elem 112 (Score:5, Funny)
Hundredandtwelvium
116 comment and no one mentioned this? (Score:5, Funny)
Tiberium!
Now its just a matter of time before the rise of nod.
Re:Emergentium (Score:5, Funny)
No name eh? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:assuming a trend (Score:3, Funny)
too long. How about Hernium?
Re:It's so obvious (Score:3, Funny)
On top of that, it's a heavy element as well. Cowboynealium is perfect.
Re:What have the Africans ever done for us? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Serious Question: Why do Germans outperform? (Score:3, Funny)
Watch it!! This isn't a Serious Screenplay.
Re:It's so obvious (Score:1, Funny)
if you go with Gore, the next thing you know, he'll have invented "elements". it'll get way out of hand.
Re:assuming a trend (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's so obvious (Score:2, Funny)
Unobtainuim (it ook 12 years just to get one atom of the stuff)
Re:What have the Africans ever done for us? (Score:3, Funny)
So basically, coffee and beer.
Re:Element 112 (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It's so obvious (Score:1, Funny)
culurally bankrupt
Oh, the irony . . .
Re:It's so obvious (Score:4, Funny)
Windowsium?
Re:Keep it in theme (Score:3, Funny)
But would they have to pronounce it "Frahnkensteenium"?
And why not "igorium"?
"It's pronounce 'eyegorium'!"
Re:Trollinium (Score:2, Funny)
tagging for the above post:
pimpmyjournal
Steve's journal will have 35" dubs and ladder-bar rear end, for sure. :)
Ladder bar, as in extension ladder welded in, cross-braced with 2x4.
/~Rockwolf
Re:It's so obvious (Score:5, Funny)
That'll be a boon for Tom Lehrer...
First you get your mod points spent
Then you name the element
Which the trolls will then lament
Then you rant then you rant then you rant
Then for real fun
Use a good pun
Give it real class! Name it TommyLeherium!