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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An artificially produced radioactive element with atomic number 112 that has only been produced in trace amounts and has nine observed isotopes with mass numbers ranging from 277 to 285. The most stable isotope has a mass number of 285 and a half-life of about 34 seconds.
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- noun The
transuranic chemical element (symbolCn ) withatomic number 112.
Etymologies
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now known as copernicium - that an official from a school in New York called and said that students there thought it should instead be named after their school: P.S.
NYT > Home Page By KENNETH CHANG 2011
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GERMANY: The newest - and heaviest - element on the periodic table could get tagged with the name "copernicium" in honor of the late astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
News 2009
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Another chemistry news flash, the folks at GSI has formally submitted "copernicium" (Cp) as the name request for
Chemistry Blog 2009
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Japan is the world's most ardent whaling nation named "copernicium", with the symbol Cp, in honour of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
British Blogs 2009
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Elements 110, 111 and 112 have been named darmstadtium (Ds), roentgenium (Rg) and copernicium (Cn).
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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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The previous heavyweight winners were copernicium (285) and roentgenium (272).
Wired Top Stories Mark Brown 2011
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Elements 110, 111 and 112 have been named darmstadtium (Ds), roentgenium (Rg) and copernicium (Cn).
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Richard Gray 2011
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The previous heavyweight winners were copernicium (285) and roentgenium (272).
Wired Top Stories Mark Brown 2011
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Since then, a total of about 75 atoms of copernicium have been created and detected.
qroqqa commented on the word copernicium
Element 112, symbol Cn, previously known by the IUPAC temporary name ununbium. (The symbol originally proposed was Cp, but this was rejected as it had once been used for the claimed element cassiopeium.)
July 17, 2009
reesetee commented on the word copernicium
No offense to Copernicus, but I prefer ununbium. :-)
July 17, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word copernicium
I had a gerbil named Copernicus.
July 17, 2009
reesetee commented on the word copernicium
A friend of mine has an emotionally disturbed lorikeet by that name.
July 17, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word copernicium
... but you don't know anyone with a pet named Ununbium, do you? Ever wonder why?
July 18, 2009
reesetee commented on the word copernicium
Not lately. But I will add it to my list of possible Zebra Finch names.
July 18, 2009
bilby commented on the word copernicium
I take ununbiumbrage at the name change.
July 19, 2009