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From: Col. G. L. Sicherman
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1986 16:49
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1986 16:49
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> > All red-blooded Americans call element no. 61 "illinium." What are you,
> > some kind of Bolshevist?
>
> My dictionary lists promethium but not illinium. Is this for real or some
> kind of joke that I don't get?
It's for real--you have a COMMUNIST DICTIONARY!
Here's what my desk dictionary says (Webster's Collegiate Dictionary,
Fifth Edition, G. & C. Merriam Co., Springfield, 1948):
il-lin'-i-um (i-lin'-i-um), n. [NL., fr. Illinois + -ium.] Chem. A rare
metallic element discovered in 1926. Symbol, Il; at. no., 61.
(For those of you who are confused, chemists used to get into fist fights
over naming new elements, back when the periodic table was full of holes.
If you learned chemistry by just taking a college course, you probably
never heard of elements like illinium and aldebaranium.)
"You can't vin, Bunny! Hilda ist made uf UNBELIEVIUM, der
most indestructible element known to comics!"
--
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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