Copernicium - Heaviest Element 112 Gets A Name
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - 01:07
in Astronomy & Space
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) discovered that the Earth orbits the Sun, thus paving the way for our modern view of the world. It took a few hundred years for religion to apologize for the reception his discovery got but luckily the the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) only took a dozen years after the discovery of element 112 to honor him. Element 112 was discovered at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung (Center for Heavy Ion Research) in Darmstadt. read more
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