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Fuckin' Americans (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

IIRC the -ium ending denotes a place of origin. I.e Magnesium was first find in Magnesia. Now, the Brits thought the -ium ending sounded posher, so they called it aluminium ... but Alumnia isn't a place, so they're wrong.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Mendelevium? Ruthorfordium? Uranium? Plutonium?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    They discovered those inside Mendel and Rutherford. ... And there's reason Uranium and Plutonium weren't discovered until Bruce Willis went to space.

    You know what, it's something I heard once, but doing some research it doesn't really hold water.

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