Post #158,854
6/7/04 3:45:57 PM
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Planets, car names, table of elements, movie and book chars
Granted these were at smaller companies 25-300 or so systems. At one company I was using the table of elements. I tried to use some of the shorter cooler sounding names for the servers since those names were typed more often. The other names would go on workstations which weren't referenced as much. I did save one element name for a while to finally give to someone who usually annoyed the hell out of me. Any guesses? Hehe he was quite pissed about it but there wasn't anything he could do because it was legit. :-p
lister
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Post #158,855
6/7/04 3:52:02 PM
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Ineptium?
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Post #158,861
6/7/04 4:23:54 PM
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I only used the real element names, no made up ones
lister
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Post #158,856
6/7/04 3:54:10 PM
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Dubnium? Bohrium?
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Post #158,865
6/7/04 4:51:59 PM
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Boron?
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As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #158,867
6/7/04 5:01:45 PM
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DING!
lister
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Post #158,949
6/8/04 5:35:22 AM
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That IS "Bohrium", kinda, AFAIK: It's named for Niels Bohr.
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Post #158,950
6/8/04 6:38:28 AM
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..........
Name: boron
Symbol: B
Atomic number: 5
Standard state: solid at 298 K
Colour: black
Classification: Semi-metallic
Name: bohrium
Symbol: Bh
Atomic number: 107
* Standard state: presumably a solid at 298 K
* Colour: unknown, but probably metallic and silvery white or grey in appearance
* Classification: Metallic
Bohrium is a synthetic element that is not present in the environment at all. The German discoverers at GSI proposed the name Nielsbohrium (symbol Ns) after Niels Bohr. IUPAC are happy to name an element after Bohr but suggest bohrium (Bh) on the grounds that the first name of a person does not appear in the names of any other element named after a person. This seems to have been accepted by all concerned.
...copied from webelements.com
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- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #158,951
6/8/04 7:12:55 AM
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This is why....
CRC is a conslutant and not a chemist :-)
Peter
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Post #158,952
6/8/04 7:20:27 AM
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Re: ..........
A "boron" is a quantum of Win32. Exchange of virtual borons is what repels a sane person from Windows.
-drl
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Post #158,953
6/8/04 7:22:37 AM
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Nononono.
Borons are the particles that are emitted from people who argue about the minutiae of American politics.
They have no harmful effects, unless you count an irresistible urge to Mark Topic Read as harmful :-)
Peter
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Post #158,963
6/8/04 9:48:38 AM
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ROFL!
Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #158,960
6/8/04 8:22:48 AM
6/8/04 8:24:28 AM
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Oh - then WTF is boron named for?
Aha -- "[link|http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0808388.html|New Gr. from borax]".
And, "...first isolated in England in 1807 by Sir Humphry Davy...", yadda yadda; no, that doesn't seem to have anything to do with Niels.
Looks like I larnt sumpin today, too.
Thanks!
[Edit: Un-fucking-bleievable, but truly the LRPDism I got after posting: "Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?"]
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(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
Edited by CRConrad
June 8, 2004, 08:24:28 AM EDT
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Post #159,107
6/8/04 7:50:06 PM
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But you must admit bohrium would be more dense. :)
Alex
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German philosopher
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