• Question: If you created an element what would you name it?

    Asked by anon-191322 to Kathryn, Graeme, Chris, Anne, Agnes, Adam on 5 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Agnes Wojtusiak

      Agnes Wojtusiak answered on 5 Nov 2018:

      “Tedium” – I agreed this with a friend in chemistry once. We were doing a veeeeery boring activity, of filling in electron shells of the first 20-something elements… it was tedious… when you’re bored you come up with great ideas 😉

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      Anne Green answered on 5 Nov 2018:

      I don’t know. New elements are often named after their discoverer, but Greenium sounds a bit grim!

    • Photo: Kathryn

      Kathryn answered on 6 Nov 2018:

      Harrissium, need to have the two “SS”, but otherwise, it would be Unobtanium or Adamantium, we have Kryptonite (A mineral) now so why not?

    • Photo: Adam McGuinness

      Adam McGuinness answered on 6 Nov 2018:

      I would name a real life element Adamantium, a, it sounds cool, b, it’s named after me, so people would be using my name forevermore!

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      Graeme Poole answered on 7 Nov 2018: last edited 7 Nov 2018 1:50 pm

      My very dry sense of humour would name it “Element”, just so chemistry teachers have to suffer the confusion:

      Teacher: “Tell me about element”
      Student: “Which one?”
      Teacher: “Element”
      Student: “Which element?”
      Teacher: “Element!!”

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