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Article: More elementary improvements.
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- Word Ways
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- May 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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In Elementary Transadditions (February 2006), Darryl Francis lists the shortest transadditions he could find of 122 element names. These are a mixture of his own, recent, words and words documented as elementary transadditions in previous articles, including Ed Wolpow's Chemical Improvements (May 1995). A joint article, Elementary Improvements, by Jeremy Morse and Ed Wolpow (Feb. 1978), not mentioned by Darryl, includes three examples which actually improve on Darryl's current list, specifically NUMMULARIA (for ALUMINUM), SPHEROPHORUS (for PHOSPHORUS) and an optimal transaddition HUMANIFY (for HAFNIUM). In offering further improvements, I list just one example for each ...