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engtao

Thanks to a link here I tried the #barium #lisp gui library. It's very impressive what it's capable of. It's not even that difficult to put together a code with a nice interface. Really nice job, and the first GUI library for lisp that I've been able to implement things easily.

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Kadin

Apparently there were some strong feelings among at least a few 19th century gentlemen-chemists as to whether "barium" was really deserving of its heaviest-of-all-metals name.

"Plutonium" was even proposed as an alternative—though, from what I can tell, this effort didn't go anywhere, and "plutonium" (which, honestly, is way cooler than "barium" as names go) remained on the shelf for another century or so.

In proposing the substitution of Plutonium instead of Barium for the name of the metal of Barytes the author was actuated solely by a regard to truth as essential to science The impropriety of naming one of the lighter metals from ßapès signifying heavy will surely be obvious when it now appears that the name implies an untruth. The specific gravity of the metal of Barytes equals 4000. With what propriety therefore can it be denominated Barium, the heavy metal? Yet nick-names are hard to remove: and that this is a nick name is evident because it is notorious that it was given to the base of Barytes by anticipation, as soon as the illustrious Chemist, who afterwards applied this name to it, had decomposed the alkalies; long before he himself admitted the appellation. The metal of Barytes, in whatsoever manner its presence may be demonstrated, owes all the proofs of its existence to the dominion of fire; hence the propriety at least of giving to it the name of PLUTONIUM. Has it ever been deemed improper to suggest the alteration of a name when it involves an error? Was not this done with respect to muriatic acid? The name which Priestley bestowed upon Oxygen, was changed first by Condorcet, afterwards by Lavoisier, and now the name of the same substance is again likely to undergo an alteration. – From "The Life and Remains of Edward Daniel Clarke, Professor of Mineralogy in the University of Cambridge, Volume 2"
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