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minus-squareTaniwha420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down4·26 days agoIIRC the -ium ending denotes a place of origin. I.e Magnesium was first find in Magnesia. Now, the Brits thought the -ium ending sounded posher, so they called it aluminium … but Alumnia isn’t a place, so they’re wrong.
minus-squarevithigar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up15·26 days agoMendelevium? Ruthorfordium? Uranium? Plutonium?
minus-squareTaniwha420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·26 days agoThey discovered those inside Mendel and Rutherford. … And there’s reason Uranium and Plutonium weren’t discovered until Bruce Willis went to space. You know what, it’s something I heard once, but doing some research it doesn’t really hold water.
minus-squarem532@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up9·26 days agoWe performed an autopsy on mendelev and found a new element in there
IIRC the -ium ending denotes a place of origin. I.e Magnesium was first find in Magnesia. Now, the Brits thought the -ium ending sounded posher, so they called it aluminium … but Alumnia isn’t a place, so they’re wrong.
Mendelevium? Ruthorfordium? Uranium? Plutonium?
They discovered those inside Mendel and Rutherford. … And there’s reason Uranium and Plutonium weren’t discovered until Bruce Willis went to space.
You know what, it’s something I heard once, but doing some research it doesn’t really hold water.
We performed an autopsy on mendelev and found a new element in there