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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <sqcpgd$139$2 at dont-email.me>,
=?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
writes: 

> Den 2021-12-27 kl. 16:52, skrev Jan-Erik Söderholm:
> > Den 2021-12-27 kl. 14:47, skrev alanfe... at gmail.com:
> > 
> >> 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?
> > 
> > How many did you list, 5 if I'm right? And that is for the whole of the US?
> > One single mine in Sweden (Ytterby) has 4 elements dicovered and named 
> > after it, and 4 more discovered at the same place but named after
> > other Swedish locations or persons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ytterby
> > 
> > Anyway... Can you, without looking it up, describe the original definition
> > of the Fahrenheit scale? I think that the definition for 0 and 100 deg C
> > is well known to anyone, and very simple to reproduce and test. And both
> > points can be easilly refered to in everyday life.
> > 
> > So what did 0 deg F and 100 deg F refered to when that scale was made up?
> > Without looking it up...
> > 
> 
> Here is an overview of the natural elements with there country of discovery.
> 
> https://www.businessinsider.com/this-brilliant-graphic-shows-you-which-country-discovered-every-element-in-the-periodic-table-2014-4?r=US&IR=T
> 
> 
> I think that small Sweden stands out quite well here. The top 5 are:
> 
> UK: 24
> US: 21
> Sweden: 20
> Germany: 19
> France: 17
> Russia: 9
> 
> Then it quickly drops down just a few or a single one discovered.
> Another point of interest is where the US flags are in that picture.
> Most seems to be weird laboratory elements with minor practical use
> today. Lowest element number is 85. Compare with the more usual
> elements with lower numbers.

Sweden does well because of the rare earths.  Being chemically very 
similar, they often appear together, so finding one led to finding 
several more.

Note that some elements have very different names in other languages,
not just "aluminium" vs. "aluminum" (considering that most metals end in
"ium", "aluminum" is the outsider here) or small changes ("Silber"
instead of "silver").  For example, in German "sodium" is "Natrium"
(note the Na symbol for sodium).  Similarly, "potassium" is "Kalium"
(symbol K).  "Tungsten" is "Wolfram" (symbol W) in German.  Since 
"Wolfram" is a normal (but somewhat old-fashioned name), the title of
Oliver Sacks's wonderful book "Uncle Tungsten" would be lost in 
translation if translated literally into German.  In Swedish it is 
"Morbror Volfram", so the same problem.  Note that "tungsten" comes from 
the Swedish "tung sten", which means "heavy stone".