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Super-Heavy 112
By Heidi Henderson | June 12th 2009 06:36 PM | 3 comments | Print | E-mail | Track Comments
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About Heidi Henderson

Chair of the Vancouver Paleontological Society. Co-author of In Search of Ancient BC, Volume I, Heartland Publishing.
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The likes of Snoop Doggy Dawg are joining the ubiquitous periodic table. Super-heavy element 112 is poised to join the ranks more than a decade after its discovery by German scientists. The team, led by Sigurd Hofmann at the Centre for Heavy Ion Research, produced the first single atom of 112 back in 1996. Various names have been proposed -- I'm voting for Cordozar 112 and a double platinum deal with Death Row Records.

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logicman's picture
Element 112 should be named in honor of the IUPAC/IUPAP JWP bureaucratic delay in naming it:

procrastinium.

Patrick Lockerby | 06/12/09 | 20:14 PM
Becky Jungbauer's picture
Or maybe ginandjuicium?

Becky Jungbauer | 06/12/09 | 20:47 PM
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I've always found gin and juice ligher, more summery. Perhaps cirrosisium 112... It takes that long to show significant signs of alcohol abuse and takes almost that long to get a record deal.

Heidi Henderson | 06/13/09 | 01:49 AM

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