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The chemical element with the atomic number 112 has been officially registered under the permanent name "Copernicium," a leading scientist said on Friday.
RIA Novosti 2010
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The heaviest element yet known is now officially named "Copernicium," after the atomic number 112 - this number denotes ...
WN.com - Articles related to London Mining to move into profit with mine launch 2010
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The suggested name "Copernicium" in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus follows the tradition of naming chemical elements after merited scientists.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The suggested name "Copernicium" in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus follows the tradition of naming chemical elements after merited scientists.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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"I've just received an e-mail from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry that said the name 'Copernicium' had been officially endorsed for the element 112," GSI scientific director Horst Stoecker told RIA Novosti on the sidelines of a scientific conference in Dubna.
RIA Novosti 2010
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(Copernicium.) * Gooey hairy ... thing in the ocean near Alaska.
Friday! brigidsblest 2009
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World revolves around Copernicium copernicium, the new element 112, was named for Prussian astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus 1473-1543, who first suggested that the Earth revolves around the sun, not the other way around, and starting the "Copernican Revolution."
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Copernicium was named after Prussian astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, who died in 1543 and first suggested that the Earth revolves around the sun.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Richard Gray 2011
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They are Darmstadtium, or Ds, which has 110 protons in its nucleus and was named after the town in which it was discovered; Roentgenium, or Rg, with 111 protons, named after the discoverer of X-rays Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen; and Copernicium, or Cn, which has 112 protons and is named after the Polish astronomer Copernicus, who disrupted the view that the Earth was the center of the universe.
NYT > Home Page By DENNIS OVERBYE 2011
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Copernicium, earlier known under the temporary name "ununbium," was first synthesized in the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt in 1996 by a group of German scientists.
RIA Novosti 2010
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