[Info-vax] Where is EISNER:: and who funds it?

[alanfe...@gmail.com]

On Monday, December 27, 2021 at 4:11:52 PM UTC-5, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> >alanfe... at gmail.com wrote: 
> > 
> >> The rest of the world doesn't have several elements named after American entities: Americium, Berkelium, Californium, Tennessine, Lawrencium (a lab in California). Can any other country beat that?
> Russia, by a long shot. They have all the superheavy elements, even if 
> Americans have a few of the transuranics. But then Russians have a bunch 
> of weird ones like Samarium on top of that. 
> 
> And many of the rare earth elements are named after places in Scandinavia. 
> Holmium is named after Stockholm, Scandium and Thulium after Scandinavia 
> in general, Erbium, Terbium, Ytterbium all after the Ytterby mine in 
> Sweden.
> --scott 
> -- 
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

I misspoke. I was thinking manufactured elements that don't exist in nature. Sorry. I misspoke. My bad.