It may have taken more than four and a one-half century , but astronomerNicolaus Copernicuswill finally get his Clarence Shepard Day Jr. in the scientific sun ( No pun think ) – The newest constituent in theperiodic tablewill bear his name .
Wereported on the discovery of the new superheavy ingredient 112 last month , and invited you to paint a picture some potential names it could take on for its acceptance into the periodical board , but Sigurd Hofmann ’s squad from the Centre for Heavy Ion Research decided to come up up with their own name for the chemical element they discovered : Copernicium ( Cp ) .
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formally , the name still need to be approved by the International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry , but it stand up a just chance , following their suggestion that ingredient name should ideally be refer “ after a mythological construct or fictitious character ( let in an astronomical target ) , a mineral , or similar marrow , a place or geographic part , a property of the constituent , or a scientist , ” and end in “ -ium ” .
Copernicus is considered the father of advanced astronomy , thanks to his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ( “ On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres ” ) , which argued that Earth was not the center of the universe but , instead , orb around the sunlight , bring out in 1543 , the same year that he die at the eld of 70 .
Copernicus gets his seat on the periodic table[New Scientist ]
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