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Mosques stand alone amid Indonesia tsunami destruction, devout see divine help
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EDWARD HARRIS, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
01-13-2005
Dateline: BANDA ACEH, Indonesia
The white Ulee Lheu mosque gleams defiantly on the tide line of the worst-hit stretch of Indonesia's devastated coast, nearly pristine despite a buffeting by last month's tsunami that turned villages behind it into a dead zone of corpses and splintered wood.
The building suffered only one ruined wall, a sandy floor and a wave-tossed boat trailer crumpled on a second-story verandah.
It's a feat of survival replicated across the region that local Muslims call extraordinary and divinely inspired, ...
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Element 106 takes a seat at the table. (seaborgium included in periodic table)(Chemistry)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Science News
; Seaborgium, the heavy element named after Glenn...experiments performed on a mere seven atoms of seaborgium place it firmly in the group that includes...number, 106, that's exactly where seaborgium belongs. However, after previous experiments...
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Aiming for superheavy elements. (new isotopes of seaborgium discovered) (Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Science News
; ...discovered two new isotopes of element 106, seaborgium (SN: 3/19/94, p.180). One...nuclei into curium-248. One product, seaborgium-265, has a half-life (the time...to decay) between 2 and 30 seconds; seaborgium-266 has a half-life between 10 and...
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Element 106 takes the name seaborgium. (to honor Glenn T. Seaborg, who contributed to the discovery of the transuranium element) (Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Science News
; ...Society in San Diego this week. Element 106 will be called seaborgium, denoted Sg, in honor of Glenn T. Seaborg, who shared...winning the Nobel Prize." "A thousand years from now, seaborgium will still be in the periodic table, whereas the 20th-century...
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Element Name Honors Nobel Prize-Winning Former Prof
News Wire article from: University Wire
; ...and Applied Chemistry has adopted "seaborgium" as the official name for element 106...been a long fight to name element 106 seaborgium," said Jane Scheiber, publicist for...have all tried to push for the name." Seaborgium belongs to the group of elements referred...
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Chemist honored on periodic table. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ...periodic table, has been christened ``seaborgium'' in honor of Glenn T. Seaborg...fermium, mendelevium, nobelium and now seaborgium. Seaborg shared the Nobel Prize in...control and an end to nuclear testing. Seaborgium _ known as Sg in chemical shorthand...
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FOR SCIENTISTS, AGREEING ON NAMES IS HARDLY ELEMENTARY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; ...announced that they had named Element 106 seaborgium in honor of Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg...name had been expunged; instead of seaborgium, Element 106 was to be called rutherfordium...in which Element 106 would remain seaborgium, but Element 104 would become dubnium...
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By any other name ...(The Elements)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Popular Science
; ...the accepted name for Element 106: seaborgium. Why? Because Glenn Seaborg is still...in the Periodic Table--including seaborgium, whose discoverers had named it for...physicist Ernest Rutherford), formerly seaborgium. * Element 107: bohrium (for Niels...
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The transfermium wars. (procedure for naming new chemical elements)
Magazine article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
; ...official designation of element 106 as seaborgium. But in August 1994, a committee of...by Seaborg's group at Berkeley, as seaborgium. Rounding out the group, 107 was to...unhappy." So, is it all over? Will seaborgium be just a fleeting memory? Maybe not...
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A Chemist in the White House.(Review)
Magazine article from: Chemistry and Industry
; ...californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium and seaborgium. As a direct result of his discoveries, Seaborg was able...it was finally decided that element 106 should be named seaborgium (Sg). Seaborg is also exceptional in that virtually all...
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Chemistry: Seaborg Leaves Mark on Table
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...whose existence was confirmed last summer, has been named "seaborgium" in honor of Nobel laureate Glenn T. Seaborg, 81, of the University of California at Berkeley. Seaborgium is one of the transuranic elements - those with higher atomic...
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