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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday June 09 2016, @09:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the one-should-be-named-surprise dept.

from the elementy-mcelementface dept.

Nature reports (doi:10.1038/nature.2016.20069) that the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has taken proposals from the discoverers of four new chemical elements:

  • Nihonium and symbol Nh, for the element with Z =113,
  • Moscovium with the symbol Mc, for the element with Z = 115,
  • Tennessine with the symbol Ts, for the element with Z = 117, and
  • Oganesson with the symbol Og, for the element with Z = 118.

The proposed names honour Japan, Moscow, Tennessee and the Russian nuclear physicist Yuri Oganessian. Before the names become official, there is to be a five-month period during which the public may comment upon them. The symbol Ts was chosen because Tn is already in use for 220Rn, known as thoron (probably because it results from the decay of thorium).

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2016, @09:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2016, @09:59AM (#357240)

    Ambiguous words make poor choices in headlines, especially words which have completely opposite meanings:

    to moot (v) 1. (US) to declare irrelevant,
    2. (elsewhere) to propose for discussion.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2016, @10:27AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2016, @10:27AM (#357245)

    3. The name of an Internet famous weeb cuck.
    4. To turn your back on a chan and install SJW moderators and FBI overseers.

    8chan is almost as mooted as 4chan now. Moot lied, people died.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2016, @10:32AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2016, @10:32AM (#357247)

      What's this about Weebo and Mooty?

    • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2016, @11:42AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2016, @11:42AM (#357264)

      3. The name of an Internet famous weeb cuck.
      I lean more towards more of a "cum drinking weeb faggot who should be slowly tortured to death on video for the world to laugh at" definition.

      • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2016, @01:20PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2016, @01:20PM (#357289)

        (because it tells me to)

  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Thursday June 09 2016, @11:44AM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Thursday June 09 2016, @11:44AM (#357266) Journal

    Butthurt apparently gets a kick out of using it: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/05/15/129219 [soylentnews.org]

  • (Score: 4, Touché) by Nerdfest on Thursday June 09 2016, @02:19PM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Thursday June 09 2016, @02:19PM (#357318)

    Isn't it wonderful when people use words completely improperly for so long that the meaning gets changed to the opposite? It makes me literally explode.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2016, @02:36PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2016, @02:36PM (#357329)

      Nice.