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Ununbium out of the periodic table! :)

[scrabblehack]

http://www.chemicalelements.com

It’s probably a slow news day. They synthesize these things for a few milliseconds and then they say they’ve discovered a new element.

I hope they eventually give it a real name and two letter symbol.

104: Rutherfordium (Rf) Unnilquadium (Unq)
(once called Dubnium)
105: Dubnium (Db), Unnilpentium (Unp), Joliotium (Jl),
Hahnium (Ha)
106: Seaborgium (Sg), Unnilhexium (Unh),
(once called Rutherfordium)
107: Bohrium (Bh), Unnilseptium (Uns), Nielsbohrium (Ns)
108: Hassium (Hs) Unniloctium (Uno),
(once called Hahnium (Hn))
109: Meitnerium (Mt), Unnilennium (Une),
110: Ununnilium (Uun)
111: Unununium (Uuu)
112: Ununbium (Uub)

And why do they use the Greek prefixes for 5 and 9, and then Latin otherwise (well, ok, tri- and octo- work for both)?

OK, they didn’t want to say “Ununsexium” for 116.
But why not “Ununquintium” instead of “Ununpentium?”
Why not “Ununnonium” instead of “Ununennium?”

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"with a half life of only about 240 microseconds."

Thank you for answering my question before I asked it.

[knighthawk]

hehehe