The Soviets discover an element, and name it after Lysenko![]()
What happens?
Americans discover it later and name it with their own name. Little is changed. Especially since I don't think any of the soviety names for elements stuck.
Americans discover it later and name it with their own name. Little is changed. Especially since I don't think any of the soviety names for elements stuck.
IIRC, Rutherfordium and Dubnium are compromises between the US and USSR. Dubnium refers to Dubna, the Soviet equivalent of CERN.
Edit to Add: Although those aren't the original names they wanted, so I suppose you're right.
IIRC, Rutherfordium and Dubnium are compromises between the US and USSR. Dubnium refers to Dubna, the Soviet equivalent of CERN.
That's not how international naming conventions work as far as I know. If Soviets name an element after Lysenko (though why would they name it after a biologist?), then that is the name that everyone uses. You don't see anti-American countries renaming Californium to Kim-Jong-il-ium or Ayatollahium in OTL, do you?Americans discover it later and name it with their own name. Little is changed. Especially since I don't think any of the soviety names for elements stuck.
That's not how international naming conventions work as far as I know. If Soviets name an element after Lysenko (though why would they name it after a biologist?), then that is the name that everyone uses. You don't see anti-American countries renaming Californium to Kim-Jong-il-ium or Ayatollahium in OTL, do you?
That's not how international naming conventions work as far as I know. If Soviets name an element after Lysenko (though why would they name it after a biologist?), then that is the name that everyone uses. You don't see anti-American countries renaming Californium to Kim-Jong-il-ium or Ayatollahium in OTL, do you?
For a while that really was the case
I have textbooks with Nielsborium and Kurchatovium somewhere in storage, btw. And the American books with the opposite.
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Oops. Please forgive my ignorance & forget what I said then.Actually they did. Elements 104-106 had different names in the USSR and allies than they did in the west. It was a big controversy in chemistry for awhile.