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- noun The
systematic element name for the chemical element withatomic number 117 (symbol Uus)
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Even though the name ununseptium (symbol: Uus) is only temporary, Russian and U.S. scientists still have made an important discovery of a new chemical element, one with an atomic number of Z = 117.
OCAU News James Agg Rolfe 2010
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The element - which has no formal name but is known as ununseptium - was created by accelerating an atom of calcium (element 20) in a cyclotron and smashing it into an atom of berkelium (element 97).
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The element 117 is roughly 40 per cent heavier than lead and has been given the temporary name ununseptium, which refers to its atomic number.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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For the moment, the discovery will be known as ununseptium, a very unwhimsical, latinate placeholder that refers to the element's atomic number, 117.
NYT > Home Page By JAMES GLANZ 2010
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For the moment, the discovery will be known as ununseptium, a very unwhimsical, latinate placeholder that refers to the element's atomic number, 117.
NYT > Home Page By JAMES GLANZ 2010
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For the moment, the discovery will be known as ununseptium, a very unwhimsical, latinate placeholder that refers to the element's atomic number, 117.
NYT > Home Page By JAMES GLANZ 2010
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For the moment, the discovery will be known as ununseptium, a very unwhimsical Latinate placeholder that refers to the element's atomic number, 117.
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The element - which has no formal name but is known as ununseptium - was created by accelerating an atom of calcium (element 20) in a cyclotron and smashing it into an atom of berkelium (element 97).
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For the moment, the discovery will be known as ununseptium, a very unwhimsical Latinate placeholder that refers to the element's atomic number, 117.
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After a lot of bombarding things that were made out of other bombarded things, scientists had their new element, which they temporarily dubbed ununseptium (Latin for 117-ness).
Something Awful zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack "Geist Editor 2010
oroboros commented on the word ununseptium
Uus
November 26, 2007
hernesheir commented on the word ununseptium
The systematic element name placeholder for element Z=117, also known by the temporary symbol Uus, as oroboros listed in the comment below. Also historically called eka-astatine in Dmitri Mendeleev's naming system for predicted but as-yet undiscovered elements.
April 15, 2010