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To: AdmSmith

i thought 115 was called Ununpentium...


43 posted on 06/09/2016 2:42:32 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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To: Chode

:: i thought 115 was called Ununpentium ::

I believe the name is “un-pretentious-ium”....but I could be wrong.


50 posted on 06/09/2016 2:54:31 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: Chode
"Ununpentium" was just a temporary placeholder for whatever name they'd finally come up with.

A clever joker could have created a hoax that Ununpentius was a great scientist and convinced them to keep the name.

They didn't go for my pick "Unobtanium," but maybe Hollywood has that one copyrighted.

54 posted on 06/09/2016 2:59:44 PM PDT by x
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To: Chode

That’s just a placeholder name until an official name could be decided.


65 posted on 06/09/2016 4:25:39 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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