If I were to ever be given the chance to give an element a name, I'd chose something like "stadium" or "podium".
The chemist in me rejoices at this news, this is absolutely astounding. The fact we can do this makes me look forward to the coming years even more, hopefully we can even reach the island of stability.
[QUOTE=std DONOR;37826336]Cocainum.[/QUOTE]
It's a hell of an element.
As a chemistry student this makes me very happy!
Doesn't RIKEN have the fastest combined system in the world too?
Well, shit.
USED to have the #1 system
[url]http://www.top500.org/list/2012/06/100[/url]
Now us Americans have it, The LLNL lab.
[QUOTE=Apache249;37829448]I wonder what "naming rights" allow you to do. If there's no restrictions, someone could bite the bullet and name an element Fuck.
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Atomic symbol Fu.
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Fuck (II) Iodide[/QUOTE]
There is a committee that reviews the names and decides if it can be used.
Element Zero.
[QUOTE=kazookie;37827096]I like the way facepunch is so creative when it comes to names of elements.
According to you, new elements need the ending -ium for some reason.
The elements having "un-whatever-ium" names, just doesn't have real names yet. It's a "quasi Latinizing" of the elements number. 118 becomes Un-un-Oct-ium Uuo, 103 (Lawrencium, Lr) was Un-nil-tri-um Unt before it got its name.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, because californium, uranium and germanium don't exist.