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| | Heavy element names (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | This is an important and highly-visible honor which touches on national and institutional pride, and future funding. |
 | | IUPAC (The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) has been careful about offending anyone and in the 70's suggested neutral numeric names: 104 Unq (unnilquadium), 105 Unp (unnilpentium), 106 Unh (unnilhexium), 107 Uns (unnilseptium), 108 Uno (unnioctium), 109 Une (unnilennium), and 110 (unununium). |
 | | Very few researchers used these names which further confused the situation since many of these elements had more than one name to choose from. |
| www.newton.dep.anl.gov /newton/askasci/1993/chem/CHEM003.HTM (267 words) |
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