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From: rmt51@cas.org ()
Subject: Re: Russian words in English
Message-ID: <1994Nov9.044027.15058@chemabs.uucp>
Sender: Rick Turkel (rturkel@cas.org)
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References: <38rmoi$k4j@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <1994Nov2.155336.13627@guvax> <CypEv1.Fn4@spss.com> <Cywv9p.50C@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 04:40:27 GMT
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In article <Cywv9p.50C@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>,
Ivan A Derzhanski <iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

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>There is nothing Russian about this one either.  Mendelevium was
>discovered in California, presumably by English-speaking researchers,
>and, as I suggested and M Carrasquer confirmed, the _-ium_ elements
>are named by an international organisation, whose full name escapes me
>at the moment.  This means that the Russian _mendelevij_ is derived
>from the Latin (?) _mendelevium_, not the other way around.

Huh?  Mendelevium was named for Dmitri Mendeleyev, the 19th-century
Russian chemist responsible for the periodic table.  The name was
approved by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
(IUPAC), which is responsible for the official world nomenclature for
_all_ elements, not only metals (which are those ending in -ium).
"...nothing Russian..." my eye!

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