Name new element 117 Octarine in honour of Terry Pratchett'

[Who's Wee Dug]

Feegled from Steeljam's post on DWEmp.

Name new element 117 Octarine, in honour of Terry Pratchett's Discworld.

https://www.change.org/p/iupac-joint-in ... -discworld?

 

[RathDarkblade]

Re: Name new element 117 Octarine in honour of Terry Pratch

Signed! Let's hope it gets up there with antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium and all that jazz.

 

[Penfold]

Re: Name new element 117 Octarine in honour of Terry Pratch

Signed and shared as well.

 

[Tonyblack]

Re: Name new element 117 Octarine in honour of Terry Pratch

Signed and shared as well.

Me too!

 

[Penfold]

Re: Name new element 117 Octarine in honour of Terry Pratch

Personally, I think when the census comes around again, we should all answer the question 'what is your religion' with "Pratchettism" and have the Creator properly deified.

 

[Tonyblack]

Re: Name new element 117 Octarine in honour of Terry Pratch

I put "Omnism" in the last census.

 

[simmonds91]

Re: Name new element 117 Octarine in honour of Terry Pratch

I have signed the petition but I cant help thinking, shouldn't it be called Octiron?

http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Octiron

Itd be funny if they called it Element 117a

 

[Tonyblack]

Re: Name new element 117 Octarine in honour of Terry Pratch

Shame it's not 177 as that would be perfect.

 

[raisindot]

Re: Name new element 117 Octarine in honour of Terry Pratch

I put "Omnism" in the last census.

Better be careful not to misspell that as Onanism.... :whistle:

 

[Tonyblack]

Re: Name new element 117 Octarine in honour of Terry Pratch

Yes, as in Solomon's dog in Dodger.

 

[SpideyGirl]

Re: Name new element 117 Octarine in honour of Terry Pratch

Signed!

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Re: Name new element 117 Octarine in honour of Terry Pratch

From the Telegraph a report.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/author ... he-period/

 

[SpideyGirl]

Re: Name new element 117 Octarine in honour of Terry Pratch

From the Telegraph a report.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/author ... he-period/

Their suggested abbreviation for the element would be Oc, pronounced “ook” – a reference to the Librarian of Unseen University, a recurring character in Pratchett’s novels who was transformed into an orangutan after a magical accident.

 

[RathDarkblade]

Re: Name new element 117 Octarine in honour of Terry Pratch

Hmmm, I'm confused. I thought this petition only needed 10,000 signatures to be accepted? Now it says that it needs 36,000. What the heck?

Also, I signed this petition a few days ago, but when I look at it again, it says that I can sign again. Hmm? :think:

 

[Mixa]

Re: Name new element 117 Octarine in honour of Terry Pratch

What an idea! Of course I’ve just signed! :clap:

Rath, this is how Change.org works. It increases the number of signs needed every time the maximum is reached. I’m not sure there’s a limit… Until the petition is accepted, I guess.

Oh, and the signing option is always there, but you should sign like another person for your vote to be valid.

Mx

 

[Tonyblack]

Re: Name new element 117 Octarine in honour of Terry Pratch

The chances of the one of the new elements being named "Octarine" officially 1,000,000 to 1.

 

[phalarope]

Re: Name new element 117 Octarine in honour of Terry Pratch

The chances of the one of the new elements being named "Octarine" officially 1,000,000 to 1.

Do the bookmakers have ANY idea what that actually means?? Someone should inform them post-haste.

 

[Mixa]

Re: Name new element 117 Octarine in honour of Terry Pratch

I also received the petition update! Wow, what a magic causality! I couldn't stop smiling!

[The Chronicle Flask] Thank you to everyone who's supported this petition! Articles have been written about it in several national newspapers. It's even had a mention in Nature Chemistry, where the odds of octarine being chosen as an element name have been 'officially' quoted as 1,000,000:1. As we all know, million to one chances crop up nine times out of ten, so you never know...

Mx

 

[steeljam]

Re: Name new element 117 Octarine in honour of Terry Pratch

reaching 50,000 signatures

 

[RathDarkblade]

Re: Name new element 117 Octarine in honour of Terry Pratch

The chances of the one of the new elements being named "Octarine" officially 1,000,000 to 1.

Then it's a dead cert!