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Re: Chemical elements proposal (longish)
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- Subject: Re: Chemical elements proposal (longish)
- From: "Ivan Derzhanski" <cbmvax!uunet!chaos.cs.brandeis.edu!iad>
Just a question:
What criteria did an element have to meet in order to be assigned a gismu?
I'm surprised to see chlorine, cromium, nickel, neon and zinc on the list.
They are called just that in all European languages I can think of
(unlike gold, iron and sulphur, for example).
Ivan A. Derzhanski