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| | Skeptical Inquirer: The elemental man: an interview with Glenn T. Seaborg - scientist - Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) |
 | | The elements are plutonium, 94; americium, 95; curium, 96; berkelium, 97; californium, 98; einsteinium, 99; fermium, 100; mendelevium, 101; nobelium, 102; and seaborgium, 106. |
 | | They've reconsidered it at subsequent meetings and their present tendency is now to accept the name "seaborgium." Actually, there have been a number of elements named after living people, and it has never been a criterion before. |
 | | The chances are quite good now that the name "seaborgium" will be accepted, but it won't be finally determined until the next meeting of the IUPAC general assembly to be held in Geneva, Switzerland. |
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