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The deliberate mistake in the Periodic Table

Post 1

Nich

No-one ever told me about this deliberate mistake - or are you attempting to wind me up? Maybe it's to do with IUPAC and
the ACS being unable to agree on the names of elements 104-109 - or is there something else to it?


The deliberate mistake in the Periodic Table

Post 2

Burmston

Is that a deliberate mistake?
I thought they named them things like Un-Nil-pentium (105) and the like
I may be wrong however


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