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Article: FOR SCIENTISTS, AGREEING ON NAMES IS HARDLY ELEMENTARY.(CAPITAL REGION)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- September 5, 1995
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Byline: MALCOLM W. BROWNE New York Times
An international crisis of sorts involving the United States, Russia and Germany has been temporarily averted, and although some feathers remain badly ruffled, the parties have agreed to return to the peace table. There is now at least a chance that during the next two years they may be able reach an agreement on the disputed naming of a half dozen man-made elements.
The substances in question, Nos. 104 through 109 on the periodic table of chemical elements, were all created during the last two decades using nuclear accelerators. Only a few atoms of each of these elements were generated in any experiment, and ...