Politics and Nationalism in the Naming of Chemical Elements
Abstract The naming of chemical elements, whether discovered in antiquity or during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries or, more recently, artificially produced in laboratories, has typically been politically motivated. Names from geographical entities, such as nation-states, reflect nation...
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
1991-09-01
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| Series: | Names |
| Online Access: | http://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/view/1287 |