# 111 Unununium **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 26, 2003, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/111-unununium/203941 "2003-09-26T11:35:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grousser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9d8465/32.png) [@Grousser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grousser)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/111-unununium/203941/1 "2003-09-26T11:35:04Z")
111 Uuu **Unununium** (272) [removed copyrighted material] * * * I found this text in the Periodic Table of Elements of [Sci-Fi.com](http://Sci-Fi.com), just to ask, what do you think? I didn’t catch the point of the unununyou backwards in time. Mods, if this is wrong here, please move it. ---
**Author:** ![TVAA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TVAA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVAA)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/111-unununium/203941/2 "2003-09-26T11:50:43Z")
Fascinating. The OP actually begins with a relatively good grasp of logic, but then loses focus and begins to judge conclusions based on “common sense”. What a pity. He was doing so well. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/111-unununium/203941/3 "2003-09-26T12:09:24Z")
Moving this to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/111-unununium/203941/4 "2003-09-26T13:02:28Z")
Unbridled semantics is the tool of the devil. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/111-unununium/203941/5 "2003-09-26T13:50:38Z")
Do you sing “unununium” to the tune of “Su-su-sudio”? ---
**Author:** ![curly\_chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@curly\_chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curly_chick)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/111-unununium/203941/6 "2003-09-26T15:32:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Grousser \* > **111 > Uuu > Unununium** > (272) > > Defining Our Terms > > ## If -ium used as a suffix indicates that something is an element, then unium, its negative, indicates a non-element. Ununinium, Uuu The -ium suffix denotes an element, as you say, but this format is Greek for onehundredandeleven-ium, or possibly onehundredelevenium in Americanese. Either way, 111-ium Those clever old atomic physicists know that there are some places left on the periodic table which will be filled, with elements they predict to have atomic weights of 110, 111 and 112. But they haven’t got the firepower to do it yet. Once they do, the elements will possibly be named to honour the clever person who managed to manufacture them for long enough for them to be detected and reported to IUPAC. Until then, however, these putative elements are called onehundredandtenium - Uun, onehundredandelevenium - Uuu and onehundredandtwelveium - Uub. As for the mirror - ROTFLMAO 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/111-unununium/203941/7 "2003-09-26T16:28:37Z")
But the real question is, was it unionized unununium? And if so, which local did it belong to? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/111-unununium/203941/8 "2003-09-26T17:30:55Z")
I believe this is known as a copyright violation: > **[Scifi.com](https://www.syfy.com/scifi/scifiction/periodictable.html)** > > Visit Syfy.com ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/111-unununium/203941/9 "2003-09-26T18:27:39Z")
[**copyright issues**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2079030#post2079030) [quote] At the Straight Dope Message Board, being a message board based on a series of books and newspaper columns, we encourage the respect of copyright law. The rules of the Straight Dope Message Board are enforced by volunteer moderators who are not all legal experts in these matters. So we offer a set of guidelines that may be more conservative or stringent than the law in your jurisdiction, but that we think may help avoid the copyright violation issue. In this as in many other matters we depend not only on moderator enforcement, but also ask for the cooperation and goodwill of our posters. Suggested guidelines: [list=A] [li]If you are going to quote something from an article, quote less than 5% of the source. Include a link to the article if the article is available online.[/li][li]Only quote directly in very rare circumstances. Instead of repeating a source word-for-word, read the article, attempt to understand it, and rephrase what it says in your own words. Again, include a link to the source if the source is available online. Otherwise indicate a reference to the source (e.g. Science News, issue x, pages yy-zz).[/list=A][/li][/quote] Do not do this again, **Grousser**. * * * **Cajun Man** ~ SDMB Moderator