The element name has reached L.A. and seems to be hanging around.

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The team of scientists who discovered the element chose the name to honour the man who "changed our world view".

BBC: New element named 'copernicium'

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) will officially endorse the new element's name in six months' time in order to give the scientific community "time to discuss the suggestion".

BBC: New element named 'copernicium'

Then the group that discovers the element is asked to provide a name and abbreviation for the element.

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Under IUPAC rules, the team were not allowed to name the element after a living person.

BBC: New element named 'copernicium'

Being a company of utter geeks, Google called this beta test laptop the Cr-48 after the chemical name of an unstable isotope of the chrome element.

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The computer's name is generally believed to be a play on "pixel, " the smallest element of computer graphics.

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One element that's received little attention so far is the legal requirement for a constituency to have one name, in either Welsh OR English.

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