Created Wed 10th Jun 9:56pm PST by

carpet Level 12, Guru (H$26,103)

What will element 112 be called?

Settled as Other name relating to a person

Element 112 is named 'Copernicium', after Nicolaus Copernicus
http://www.popsci.com.au/scitech/article/2009-07/element-112-named-copernicum

Background:

Background: The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has decided to add element 112 to the Periodic Table, asking the team in Germany who discovered it to propose a name.

Element 112 has a temporary label — ununbium, or Uub for short — and an atomic weight of 277, the heaviest of any known element in the universe. That's about 277 times heavier than hydrogen, the lightest element.

An Australian scientist has suggested it be named after "... the ancient Greek philosopher, Empepedocles. He suggested fire, water, earth, and air, but it was the beginnings of science as we know it now, and the beginnings of chemistry of understanding the constituents of matter."

One European scientist has suggested calling it emergencium, because 112 is the emergency phone number in some parts of Europe. Students, he reasoned, won't ever forget that name.

Suggested names: http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Ununbium
New element for periodic table: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/11/2594952.htm

Settlement details:As reported by a major mainstream news source.

Forecast history %

Astrium

Empepedoclium

Emergencium

Helmholtzium

10%

Strassmanium

Heisenbergium

Wixhausium

Other name relating to a person

35%

Other name relating to a place

Any other name not covered above

21%

Settled as Other name relating to a person on Tue 14th Jul 2:35pm PST

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Predictions: 87
Comments: 5

Suspend date: Thu 31st Dec 11:59pm PST (5 weeks to go)
Settlement date: Tue 14th Jul 2:35pm PST

Initial likelihoods: Astrium: 5%, Empepedoclium: 5%, Emergencium: 10%, Helmholtzium: 15%, Strassmanium: 5%, Heisenbergium: 5%, Wixhausium : 10%, Other name relating to a person: 15%, Other name relating to a place: 15%, Any other name not covered above: 15%

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Created Wed 10th Jun 9:56pm PST by

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: Please settle "other name related to a person":

Element 112 is named 'Copernicium', after Nicolaus Copernicus

http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/schweiz/kernphysik_elemente_gsi_1.3041461.html (market suspended)

Settled as 'Other name relating to a person' Tue 14th Jul 2:35pm PST by

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: Element 112 is named 'Copernicium', after Nicolaus Copernicus
http://www.popsci.com.au/scitech/article/2009-07/element-112-named-copernicum

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Predictions (87)

20 weeks ago

ojw15

predicted Empepedoclium (H$100 at 5%)

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ojw15

predicted Helmholtzium (H$50 at 7%)

20 weeks ago

ojw15

predicted Heisenbergium (H$50 at 4%)

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ojw15

predicted Wixhausium (H$50 at 2%)

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ojw15

predicted Strassmanium (H$50 at 1%)

Comments (5)

carpet Level 12, Guru (H$26,103)

Just a quick clarification: if the final name is spelt slightly differently to the options above but the intent is clear (e.g. Empepedoclesium rather than Empepedoclium) then the question will still settle on that name.

posted 23 weeks ago

youbet Level 14, Prophet (H$135,200)

Its Empedocles btw NOT Empepedocles.

posted 23 weeks ago

bigken1 Level 15, Seer (H$357,859)

Nice question carpet!!!!!

posted 23 weeks ago

carpet Level 12, Guru (H$26,103)

@youbet - thanks, that's just the sort of confusion I wanted to avoid!
@bigken1 - no problem. I can still remember the first 20 or so. I'd start getting a bit rusty naming elements 21 - 100 and I'd have no hope remembering 101 - 111!!

posted 23 weeks ago

carpet Level 12, Guru (H$26,103)

A word of warning to all those betting big on the "Other" options. 111 names have already been taken, so there's not too many left. It's usually named after a person or a place that has significance to the discoverer. I think the team that discovered element 112 named their last discovery (element 110) "Darmstadtium", after their city.

posted 23 weeks ago