Sentence examples for discovered elements from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, these minerals seemed to be scarce, and thus these newly discovered elements were named "rare earths".

Police Inspector Michel Forget said investigators had "discovered elements" that led to a criminal inquiry, although he provided no details.

Many "newly discovered elements" were not one element but mixtures of as many as six different rare-earth elements.

The New Yorker, April 8 , 1950 P. 23New atoms are turning up with spectacular frequency these days, and the University of California at Berkeley, whose scientists have discovered elements 97 and 98, has christened them berkelium and californium, repectively.

There will soon be four new names on the periodic table after scientists decided to use recently discovered elements to pay tribute to Japan, Moscow, Tennessee and a Russian scientist.

New atoms are turning up with spectacular frequency these days, and the University of California at Berkeley, whose scientists have discovered elements 97 and 98, has christened them berkelium and californium, repectively.

As they report in this week's Nature, they have characterised the properties of a recently discovered element using two atoms.

Since his death, fans have signed an online petition for the singer's nickname to live on through a newly discovered element to be named "Lemmium".

During the summer of 1940, Edwin McMillan and Philip Abelson of the University of California, Berkeley, discovered element 93 (naming it neptunium, after the next planet after Uranus, for which uranium was named); they inferred that this element would decay into element 94.

During the summer of 1940, Edwin McMillan and Philip Abelson of the University of California at Berkeley discovered element 93 (naming it neptunium, after the next planet after Uranus, for which uranium was named); they inferred that this element would decay into element 94.

In 1926 groups of scientists at the University of Florence, Italy, and at the University of Illinois claimed to have discovered element 61 and named the element florentium and illinium, respectively, but their claims could not be independently verified.