Friday, June 15, 2012

Flý (flerovium)

It's official: the newly discovered element has a name: Flerovium.  It is the superheavy brother of "lead" on the 7th period and symbol is Fl and was named after the Russian scientist Georgy Flyorov.  I thought: Why not calling it FL­Ý? This word has exactly the first three first characters of the surname, it rhymes on "blý" (lead) and sounds like the verb "flýja" (flee, escape), which is a convenient connotation because the element is very unstable in comparison to lead.

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