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From: kwh@bentley.UUCP (KW Heuer)
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Subject: Re: promethium
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Date: Thu, 17-Apr-86 15:24:14 EST
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In article <6588@utzoo.UUCP> utzoo!henry (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> (For those of you who are confused, chemists used to get into fist fights
>> over naming new elements, back when the periodic table was full of holes.
>
>I have news for you:  they still do.  There is, um, a small difference of
>opinion on the names for elements 104 and 105.  104 is either Hahnium or
>Kurchatovium....

I thought the high-numbered elements had been standardized to
"unnilquaddium", etc.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ihnp4!bentley!kwh), The Walking Lint