fattrad
Mountain climber
GOP Convention
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 1, 2012 - 05:56pm PT
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'Livermorium' is new atomic element name
Contra Costa Timescontracostatimes.com
Posted: 05/31/2012 04:24:35 PM PDT
June 1, 2012 7:57 PM GMTUpdated: 06/01/2012 12:57:08 PM PDT
Livermore on Thursday achieved a new degree of lasting fame when an international body officially approved Livermorium as the name for element 116 with the symbol Lv.
Livermorium honors Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the city of Livermore, the lab announced in a news release.
At the same time, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry officially agreed that element 114 would be called Flerovium, noted as Fl.
The name honors the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, about 80 miles north of Moscow, where superheavy elements, including element 114, were synthesized. Georgiy N. Flerov (1913-1990) was a physicist who discovered the spontaneous fission of uranium.
The two names were proposed by scientists at the laboratories who collaborated in the discovery work.
Livermore lab scientists have researched heavy elements since the laboratory's inception in 1952 and have been involved in the discovery of six elements -- 113,114,115,116,117 and 118.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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pretty cool indeed
I had a small role getting some resources lined up,
"the crew" has worked long and hard and the honor is well deserved
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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Hartounium would've been a GUD name too. Congrats to all at Livermore.
Peace
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eKat
Trad climber
BITD3
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Great news. . . just GREAT!
oxox
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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All these free spirit science types and we've yet to discover "Jerry Garciaium"?
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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the local winery had it covered with a Petit Sirah Flight that they called Livermorium
http://www.winemakerspourhouse.com/
so tough being a scientist having to take visitors out for a post-meeting refreshment...
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Jennie
Trad climber
Elk Creek, Idaho
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Congratulations, Dr Ed and Livermore National Laboratory "crew"!
That green-eyed monster, jealousy, sometimes devours Idaho locals...because of Livermore and Fermi Lab's prominence over our own national laboratory, the INL.
But, different labs, different pursuits...certainly the scientists at the INL have veneration and deep respect for Livermore's pronounced achievements.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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the good work of any of the labs, is good for all of the labs
y'all do some nice work out there in Idaho
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zBrown
Ice climber
mercenario de merced
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Elemental my dear Watson. Congrats. My friend Steve used to work there.
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Roger Breedlove
climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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"Lv is in the air
"Lv is in the air
"Oh oh oh
"Oh oh oh
"Lv is in the air
"From the fire of the sun
"Lv is in the air
"Found when the day was nearly done
"Lv is in the air
"Oh oh oh
"Lv is in the air
"But not for long."
Congrats to you and your team Ed.
Way better than that lame chant:
Un-Un-Hex-ium.
What is that, a call for a cam?
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Great job, Ed and colleagues!
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Ed got jobbed. It should have been coined, Hartounium, and even that Ruskie knows it.
But that's a great honor for sure! Even if they got the name wrong.
JL
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Congrats to all of the crew, and you, Ed!!!!
Roger--hilarious!
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Congrats Ed and colleagues, awesome a center of excellence indeed......world class and so it goes.... love to hear about those things seemingly infinitely small and those things seemingly infinitely big starring up at the night sky in the mountains, physics is truth. Hope to catch u Ed sometime this season,
Berg Heil,
Charlie D.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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half life?
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MisterE
Social climber
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Congrats, Ed - that is a great, lasting honor.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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My very first friend, a kid my age, is named J. Michael Livermore.
I should give him a ring.
Ed, congratulations.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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I should have looked first.
wiki: livermorium-293 with a half-life of ~60 ms
About the folding time of many proteins, just to put it in my terms.
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Kalimon
Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
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The essential Edlemental.
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