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From: pmk@prometheus.UUCP (Paul M Koloc)
Newsgroups: net.comics,net.sci
Subject: Re: promethium
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Date: Tue, 15-Apr-86 16:37:11 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 15 16:37:11 1986
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Keywords: elements, illinium, promethium
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In article <943@ellie.UUCP> colonel@ellie.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes:
>> > All red-blooded Americans call element no. 61 "illinium." 

>> My dictionary lists promethium but not illinium. 
>
>Here's what my [old] desk dictionary says (Webster's Collegiate Dictionary,
>Fifth Edition, G. & C. Merriam Co., Springfield, 1948):
>il-lin'-i-um (i-lin'-i-um), n.  [NL., fr. Illinois + -ium.]  Chem.  A rare
>metallic element discovered in 1926.  Symbol, Il; at. no., 61.

For some reason, I kind of like the name "promethium"
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