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Europium? -- nm

Posted by Roger More (aka rogermore) Sep 1 '11, 19:19

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named for the continent, not the moon. -- nm - Reagen Sep 1, 19:20 20
- Titanium -- nm - Roger More Sep 1, 19:20 19
  - hmm, thinking over my wording, you may have caught me with these two. -- nm - Reagen Sep 1, 19:22 18
    - I think that's it for me though. Unless there's a moon named Pallas => Palladium -- nm - Roger More Sep 1, 19:24 17
      - the three others I was thinking of - Reagen Sep 1, 19:26 3
        
        I don't understand the derivation of those. -- nm - loosilu Sep 1, 19:27 2
        
        tellus = Latin for earth; selene = greek for moon; phosphorus = greek for "light-bearer", the ancient name for Venus. -- nm - Reagen Sep 1, 19:30
        
        Selene was the Greek goddess of the moon -- nm - Roger More Sep 1, 19:28
      - Admantis is a perfectly cromunlent planet! nm - ralph wiggum Sep 1, 19:25
      - asteroid. -- nm - Reagen Sep 1, 19:24 11
        
        Francium! France is on earth, therefore part of the solar system. Also Curium. Marie Curie is buried on Earth. -- nm - loosilu Sep 1, 19:27 9
        
        You've opened a can of worms now. Gallium, Germanium, Californium, Berkerlium... Yttrium, Terbium, Ytterbium -- nm - Roger More Sep 1, 19:28 4
        
        Yourmomium -- nm - nubby Sep 1, 19:29 1
        
        *laughing* Your facium. -- nm - mara Sep 1, 19:49
        
        iodine? -- nm - loosilu Sep 1, 19:29 1
        
        greek for purple. -- nm - Reagen Sep 1, 19:31
        
        the one that amuses me is the four named after a place in Sweden - Reagen Sep 1, 19:28 3
        
        Weinerwaldium. nm - ralph wiggum Sep 1, 19:29 2
        
        numberwangium! -- nm - Reagen Sep 1, 19:30 1
        
        BWAAAAH! - ralph wiggum Sep 1, 19:32
        
        cheating now - but selenium -- nm - Roger More Sep 1, 19:26
Cerium -- nm - Roger More Sep 1, 19:19 4
- good one. -- nm - Reagen Sep 1, 19:20 3
  - what celestial body is that? -- nm - loosilu Sep 1, 19:21 2
    - Ceres, the largest asteroid -- nm - Roger More Sep 1, 19:21 1
      - ahem. -- nm - Ceres, Dwarf Planet Sep 1, 19:28

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