• Question: If you could be named after an element, which element would you be?

    Asked by Tom Howell to Joe, Jos, Kate, Lisa, Pierre on 13 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Kate Dobson

      Kate Dobson answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      For a truly random name I quite like “Seaborgium” which is an element we have only ever seen produced in experiments and decays very quickly, but I think “Lutetium” might be a bit earier to live with!

    • Photo: Joshaniel Cooper

      Joshaniel Cooper answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      I would like to be named after Curium, then I could be known as “the cure”

    • Photo: Lisa Simmons

      Lisa Simmons answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      Einsteinium, it’s named after Einstein! And the colour it glows when it emits alpha radiation is beautiful

    • Photo: Joe Reed

      Joe Reed answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      Hydrogen. Its THE element. Most abundant in the Universe and starting just with hydrogen, through fusion, you can get any other element.
      It also makes a pretty good explosion, so thats cool too.

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