Re: Periodic Table in conlang
| From: | Padraic Brown <agricola@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 25, 2001, 3:31 |
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Am 24.12.01, David Peterson yscrifef:
> In a message dated 12/24/01 8:29:39 AM, agricola@WAM.UMD.EDU writes:
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> << They were discovered in Germany... >>
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> Well, they very well may have been, but if they were, they were
> discovered by Berkeley professors, who named them after "California" and
> "Berkeley".
Er. I rather think we're talking about different pantlegs of the
Trousers of Time. *Here* they were discovered by Seaborg et al.
at California. *There* they were discovered in Germany. Hence the
different names.
> And then there are the others: Lawrencium after Lawrence (we
> have a Lawrence Hall), Einsteinium after Einstein... What do you mean they
> were discovered in Germany?
See above. In Ill Bethisad, much of the atomic science (that
*here* was done in the US) was done in Germany.
> -David
Padraic.
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