Lutetium - Periodic Table of Videos

[SYamooraSY]

I kept hearing luteCium !!

[joebiekong]

i think it should change it's name to parisium

[boiledhooker]

I'd like to learn Latin.

[Olhado256]

@boiledhooker I wouldn't recommend it. The basic grammar seems very easy but once you actually start to memorize all the declensions and whatnot, it quickly stops being fun. If you don't believe me, read up on the third declension.

[vmelkon]

Can you detect the radioactivity of natural Lutetium? It has 2.59% of Lu-176.

[emilen2]

He didn't learn latin as a kid - he read Asterix like the rest of us! ;)

[sethboy66]

@emilen2 Wait, I have only been taking french class for 3 months now but I am pretty sure Asterix is a french comic book, am i right?

[emilen2]

@sethboy66 Yes, it is french, but around 50 BC almost all of Gallia was occupied by the Roman Empire. ;)

Read your Asterix, sir. Lutetia Parisiorum

[sethboy66]

@emilen2 I am incapable of reading Asterix comics as i am in the U.S.

[dafyd4]

There are 9 or 10 elements named after cities or towns: Yttrium, Erbium, Terbium, Ytterbium, Hafnium, Holmium, Lutetium, Berkelium, and Darmstadtium. Strontium is named after the mineral strontia, SrO, which in turn is named after Strontian (Sron an tSithe "nose of the Fairies"), a parish in Scotland, so does it count?

[temporaldisplacement]

British children should be learning latin for posteritys sake if nothing else. ;p

[trespire]

@temporaldisplacement My posterior is posteriously proposterous.

Try saying that fastly three times. ;p

[temporaldisplacement]

@trespire Done. Easy.

[taeke18]

@trespire no probs done that ;)

[Serostern]

And ytterbyum, called after Ytterby in Sweden.

YtterBy would be directly translated to OuterVillage

[jesperlett]

And Hafnium is named after Copenhagen which was Hafnia in Latin which means harbour

[Drag0nfoxx]

Holmium was named after Stockholm, I believe.

[Drag0nfoxx]

Darmstadtium is named after Darmstadt, where many elements were first made.

[Bimm3rcc]

hafnium is named after copenhagen (Denmark). also a city

[artman40]

I heard that lutetium is about 6 times more expensive than gold.

[UncleKennybobs]

@artman40 US$ 10,000 per kg

[artman40]

@UncleKennybobs I bet the price comes from the separation processes instead of the rarity of the metal.

[UncleKennybobs]

@artman40 Either way I'm going to make a goblet out of it.

[erwinparker]

@artman40 one kilogram costs a bit more than €60000. It's even more expensive than platinum!

[ThePyroNympho]

@artman40 it's worth about 1/4 that of gold

[artman40]

@ThePyroNympho So it has gone cheaper.

[stridermt2k]

Collected because of the various chemicals used in them.

You pick that up during the series if you're moved to watch each and every one of 'em like I am. :)