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dylan604last Thursday at 11:32 PM3 repliesview on HN

Americium, Einsteinium, Unobtanium also show chemistry isn't so uptight as suggested.


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marcosdumaylast Friday at 4:34 PM

> Unobtanium

I think you mean Unununium.

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jrowenlast Friday at 6:56 AM

Unobtanium is fiction from the movie Avatar lol

Notoriously bad exposition I might add ("This is unobtanium. This is what we're here for!").

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knallfroschlast Friday at 6:03 AM

America is named after some author writing about a "New World." America is sometimes erroneously used to refer to only one of the states instead of the whole continent.

Einstein doesn't tell me anything, unlike Müller (miller) and Schmied (Schmiede = Forge)