Talk:Mendelevium/Archive 1

Source for history
We can mine this article by one of the codiscoverers of Md. After that everything is done, we can get GA, and we can move on to the next actinide: nobelium. Double sharp (talk) 14:38, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on Mendelevium. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20140211144635/http://www.nist.gov/data/PDFfiles/jpcrd54.pdf to http://www.nist.gov/data/PDFfiles/jpcrd54.pdf
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20100717155410/http://radchem.nevada.edu/classes/rdch710/files/Fm%20to%20Lr.pdf to http://radchem.nevada.edu/classes/rdch710/files/Fm%20to%20Lr.pdf

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 11:15, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

Why was the symbol changed from Mv to Md?
Equinox ◑ 21:38, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
 * No reason was given in the Comptes rendus de la 19ième confèrence of IUPAC (1957), where the symbols Es, Fm, Md, and No were adopted: just a note that this displaced the previous suggestion of Mv. The reason for the displacement of Lw for lawrencium is that w is uncommon in some languages and is difficult to say; perhaps v was also considered problematic, though this is pure speculation. This didn't seem to prevent Lv from being used later for livermorium, though. Double sharp (talk) 07:04, 1 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Yeah, my thinking was that (in English specifically) v is a lot less common than d, so you should use the v where you have it available! Equinox ◑ 19:36, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Well, many languages do not have V in their Latin alphabet; out of the 72 languages listed there, only 47 have it. Even less common are Y (44), W (30), X (24), and Q (23). But then again, no one ever had a problem with Xe for xenon. This is starting to look exactly like how IUPAC in 2009 disallowed Cp for copernicium because they had recognised cassiopeium as an alternative name for Lu in the past, while accepting Fl for fluorine (also a "dead" symbol for F, but predating them), and ignoring the common use of Cp as cyclopentadienyl. Then in 2016 they accepted Ts for tennessine, even though it is commonly used for tosyl, and rejecting Tn because that is commonly used today for thoron (radon-220) in the literature – even though it is not actually an accepted isotope name by IUPAC. It seems that any attempt to rationalise their decisions is going to run into inconsistencies and we should restrict our statements to what IUPAC actually said at the time. Double sharp (talk) 02:05, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Untitled
Article changed over to new WikiProject Elements format by mav 09:29, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC). Elementbox converted 12:05, 17 July 2005 by Femto (previous revision was that of 23:54, 10 July 2005).

Information Sources
Some of the text in this entry was rewritten from Los Alamos National Laboratory - Mendelevium. Additional text was taken directly from the Elements database 20001107 (via dict.org) and WordNet (r) 1.7 (via dict.org). Data for the table were obtained from the sources listed on the subject page and WikiProject Elements but were reformatted and converted into SI units. --

Talk
- Redirect: unnilunium