From phma@oltronics.net Sat Nov 24 19:22:07 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 25 Nov 2001 03:22:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 62963 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2001 03:22:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m6.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 25 Nov 2001 03:22:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (24.25.74.3) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Nov 2001 03:22:07 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 60DB43C666; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 21:32:01 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: Subject: Gallium Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 21:31:59 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01112421315903.02856@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat Gallium is currently {fasyjinme}, but I have read that Lecoq du Boisbaudran, who discovered it, may have named it for himself instead of, or in addition to, his country. Thus it would be {jipcyjinme}. This would avoid confusion with {fasysodna} "francium". But there are still yttrium, ytterbium, terbium, and erbium, and radium and radon, to confuse people. Comments? phma