Yet another element name update!
Dec. 13th, 2011 03:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sniffnoyBecause yes, I still care about this.
As of December 1st, elements 114 and 116 have proposed names that have entered the IUPAC approval process. 114 is to be flerovium (symbol Fl), and 116 livermorium (Lv). I do hope (assuming it passes, because why wouldn't it) that Fl doesn't cause any confusion with fluorine...
Worth noting, assuming this passes (again, why wouldn't it), this would result in the first ever update to my spelling elements with elements file: It would now be possible to "silver" as SiLvEr or SILvEr. The only other transuranic element used in any of them is nobelium (No), which can be used to spell XeNoN, though it isn't necessary, as XeNON is also possible. And nobelium was named back in 1994, back before the element naming controversy that erupted over elements 104-109, and way back before I got the idea for the file sometime in undergrad! And meanwhile that didn't even make a new element name writable, it just made an existing one writable in a new way. So even if I had been maintaining it then, this would be the first "real" update. I mean the last naming of a non-transuranic element occurred back around 1940, so...
-Harry
As of December 1st, elements 114 and 116 have proposed names that have entered the IUPAC approval process. 114 is to be flerovium (symbol Fl), and 116 livermorium (Lv). I do hope (assuming it passes, because why wouldn't it) that Fl doesn't cause any confusion with fluorine...
Worth noting, assuming this passes (again, why wouldn't it), this would result in the first ever update to my spelling elements with elements file: It would now be possible to "silver" as SiLvEr or SILvEr. The only other transuranic element used in any of them is nobelium (No), which can be used to spell XeNoN, though it isn't necessary, as XeNON is also possible. And nobelium was named back in 1994, back before the element naming controversy that erupted over elements 104-109, and way back before I got the idea for the file sometime in undergrad! And meanwhile that didn't even make a new element name writable, it just made an existing one writable in a new way. So even if I had been maintaining it then, this would be the first "real" update. I mean the last naming of a non-transuranic element occurred back around 1940, so...
-Harry
