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Article: Elementary transadditions.
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- February 1, 2006
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2006 Jeremiah Farrell. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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The names of the chemical elements are an interesting group of names to conjure with. First of all, there's over one hundred of them, depending on how you count them. Secondly, there's a good mix of short names, long names, and in-between names.
Transpositions of the element names have been examined exhaustively in previous Word Ways. Dmitri Borgmann authored two articles, "An Elemental Problem" in February 1968, and "Elementary Transpositions" in August 1978. Apart from the occasional new transposition of an elemental name (e.g. GREINTON, RINGTONE), there's probably not much to be added to Dmitri's articles.
I explored transadditions of the names of the ...