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The periodic table has finally been joined by element 112, currently known as...
The periodic table has finally been joined by element 112, currently known as ununbium, 13 years after researchers first spotted it. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry informed the team of German... |
 "The Economist (US)")
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It's a gas; Chemistry.
...name (it goes under the ugly moniker of ununbium). In non-relativistic theory, it...radon. Unfortunately for chemists, ununbium can be made only a few atoms at a time...Dubna, he managed to get two atoms of ununbium to stick to a sheet of gold. What is... |
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Quick Quiz.
...makes you sound precocious? 7. Scientists have just been credited with the discovery of the element Ununbium. What does the word Ununbium mean? 8. Which Oscar winning film musical was banned in Burma in 1956, the year it was released? 9... |
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Reflections on 40 years of involvement.(IUPAC--Then and Now)
...symbol Rg. This name is to honor the German discoverer of X-rays, Wilhelm Roentgen. Evidence for the element 112, Uub, ununbium, is currently being assessed. When the Dubna and Berkeley laboratories were competing in a race to establish new elements... |
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Blink and you'll miss it.(announcement of a new element ununoctium)
...immediately, emitting a series of alpha particles producing known elements 116 (ununhexium), 114 (ununquadium), and 112 (ununbium). And an even earlier attempt by the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, to... |
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New element named after astronomer
...the table weeks ago, will be recognised by the chemical symbol Cp. Until now, it has been known by its provisional name of ununbium. In six months, after the rest of the scientific community has been consulted, copernicium will be officially recognised... |
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The elementiad.(KICKSHAWS)(Poem)
...I haven't yet begun the second half, but it appears that the ending will be full of nuns, starting with 112 and 113, ununbium (a nun: be 'em) and ununtrium (a nun: tree 'em). Now let's see how the more familiar traditional elements work poetically... |
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All about periodic table of elements
...been used for thousands of years, but hydrogen was discovered in 1766 by English physicist and chemist Henry Cavendish while ununbium was discovered in 1996 by a team made up of scientists from all over the world. Before international teamwork became common... |
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Actinium to zinc.(World Wide Web site features periodic table)(Brief Article)
...alive today: Here you may find all you could ever want to know about the elements, from featherweight hydrogen to exotic ununbium, the temporary name for the table's latest addition, element 112. Click on an element and you'll get the basics: what... |
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