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From: lip@gcc-bill.ARPA (Sethmodius Lipkin)
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Subject: Re: Elements
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Date: Fri, 26-Apr-85 11:21:52 EDT
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[Who invented liquid soap?? -- and why??]

>Which chemical elements are named after members of the solar system,
>or have names derived from the same source as members of the
>solar system?

How about:

1) Uranium
2) Plutonium
3) Helium         (Helios - the Sun)
4) Mercury
5) Titanium       (either Titan, moon of Saturn, or Titania, moon of Uranus)
6) Europium       (Europa, moon of Jupiter)
7) Cerium         (Ceres - asteroid)
8) Palladium      (Pallas - asteroid)
9) Neptunium
10) Planetarium :-)

If only one of the names was derived from a common source, I would guess it to
be Mercury, since that's the only element that wasn't named relatively recently.

                                 Seth W. Lipkin
                                 General Computer Company
                                 harvard!gcc-bill!lip

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