>Scientists in Japan who discovered element 113 have chosen the name nihonium, derived from the name of the country in the local language, and the accompanying symbol Nh.
phys.org
If you discovered a previously unknown game, would you name it after your country?
>not naming it Sakuradite or any other anime element with near-magical properties
Japs really missed an opportunity there.
>IUPAC said in the release Wednesday that newly discovered elements can be named after mythological concepts or characters, minerals or similar substance, places, or geographical regions, a property of the element, or a scientist.
Is anime "mythological"?
They could've named it after, dunno, Sengoku era characters, or one of their 8 millions of small gods.
>Japanium is real
So when are we getting Chogokin Z?
I would name it Nigerium, after the great nation of Nigeria. But also to troll western leftists.
We have Europium and Americum, so it's no big deal.
>>If you discovered a previously unknown game, would you name it after your country?
You mean a game that came into existance without human influence? We have way more important question on this than how to name it.
>Americum
I will never not laugh at that
You're just inviting them to start bitching about allll those elements named after straight white men and how they should be changed. Because screw adding opportunity, we need to rip it out of The Oppressor's cold dead hands.
To clarify, we've known about these elements for years and years, there's just a lot of work that has to be done to get them formally recognized by the powers that be
Crabstick when?
Typo, it's Americium.
If they want to name the elements they need to discover them first.
The only element a humanities/social sciences student will discover is Butthurtium
Seems a bit excessive. Sure, there's no element specifically named after Sweden at the moment, but the village of Ytterby has four elements named after it (Ytterbium, Yttrium, Terbium and Erbium), Holmium is named after Stockholm, and for all of Scandinavia we have Scandium and Thulium. Thorium probably goes with those two as well. Oh, and Nobelium.
Its too late American men have come (kek) to impregnate your women
Oh please, as if social justice zealots ever do anything productive.
They just see those nice media/characters/elements and cry "gimme! gimme! gimme!".
>Not calling it Rancium.
>It works on 3 levels!
>We have Europium and Americum, so it's no big deal.
And Polonium, which no-one even notices anymore.
The fuck? It was synthesized in Dubna in 2004.
Welcome to politics
Can you explain the other two?
>nihonium
>Niobium
Too similar, Nishinanium sounds better.
Also, I'm on Veeky Forums, not /pol, right??
same year for Japan
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.73.2593