If you have ever discovered something such as a new theory or particle then maybe the most fun part would be giving it a name. So this is exactly what Sigurd Hofmann and his group at the Centre for ...

Yesterday Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry was naming element 116 on the periodic table livermorium. "Livermorium (atomic symbol ...

Posting in SB because of the political joke nature of the thought.<br><br>In 1875 Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran discovered a new element, which he named Gallium. Gallia is the Latin name for France, ...

It might be a surprise how much time and deliberation goes into naming elements — five more months will pass before the latest names are set in stone. For chemistry buffs across the globe, these names ...

Japanese particle physicists just received a welcome New Year’s gift: they won the right to name the superheavy element they spent a dozen years trying to create in an accelerator laboratory. Added ...

Unobtanium, collossium and fibonaccium. Those were just some of your suggestions for the name of element 112 following its confirmation two years ago. In the end researchers, led by Sigurd Hofmann and ...

SURELY the time has come to abandon the practice of attaching to elements fancy names arbitrarily selected by individuals. When names concerned: nobody but a small clique in constant personal ...

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced last week the 'provisional recommendation' that the recently discovered Element 117 be called Tennessine. The name recognizes the roles ...