New Element is called Copernicium

[astroron]

The New Element has been given a new name :thumbsup:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8153596.stm
Could anyone tell me why they use lower case for the name?

[GTB_an_Owl]

TOO HARD to spell in UPPER CASE i guess Ron :whistle:

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :D

geoff

[Glenn Dawes]

Hi guys,

These elements become all a bit too academic. It probably has a half-life of 10 to -6 seconds! I wouldn't go looking to buy a bottle!

Glenn

[Enchilada]

Yes, this new element was named after the astronomer Copernicus. As such, element number 112 will be named Copernicum, with the element symbol of Cp. :thumbsup:

Darn. Yet another element to learn!

Will element Number 113 (a prime number, incidentially) therefore now be named Galileoium, followed by Tychonium, Keplerium and Newtonium?

Thank goodness it is the 2009 IYA !!! Good commemoration as a name.

As seanliddeloe (Sean( was right when he said;

"I hope they name one gailleoum for the IYA :thumbsup:"

As to your BBC link... well, if you rely needlessly on the headline rather than the science, what else do you expect? I.e. Presumably if the English BBC News were actually talking to Professor Sigurd Hofmann from the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschun "No, I think copernicium sounds much better." Surely, wouldn't you ask better questions about the researcher and discoverer (or even integrate it into the headline the article) rather than ask such an inane question?

A better article to read is at ScienceDaily; http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090714124848.htm

Exact grammar, as it appears in this BBC article, sadly remains just a sideline victim here IMO :sadeyes:

Note: A better read on the discovery of this element is the IUPAP technical report in the article by Barber, R.C., etal. "Discovery of the Element With Atomic Number 112"; itself at; http://media.iupac.org/publications/pac/2009/pdf/8107x1331.pdf
(Note : Professor Hofmann does not actually appear in this latest conformational paper . I.e. He is not directly related to the actual published conformational discovery! Reading the article's Abstract, the preliminary discovery was made in 1996 and 2002, and it has taken twelve long years to confirm the experiment. G.Dawes stating the short lifetime of this new element is likely the basis of the trouble in confirming it!)

Pity the BBC News isn't nowhere near in details or as informative! :sadeyes: