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

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On Tuesday, December 28, 2021 at 3:52:00 PM UTC-5, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <sqcpgd$139$2... at dont-email.me>, 
> =?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.... 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".

Well, I meant elements manufactured, not found lying around. And the US has quite a few under its belt. Due to disputes, Russia might actually have more. Depends on your interpretation of reports.