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A petition is calling for a newly discovered heavy metal element to be named after late Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister, and has suggested the brilliant name Lemmium.
The petition, launched today by Change.org user John Wright from York, UK, is calling on The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC, aka the peeps who deal with these sorts of things) to give Lemmys name to one of the four new elements, which currently have the pretty boring temporary titles ununtrium (113), ununpentium (115), ununseptium (117) and ununoctium (118).
Heavy rock lost its most iconic figure over Christmas with the sudden and unexpected death of Ian Lemmy Kilminster, says Mr Wright, before stating his very scientific case for Lemmium becoming a thing.
Lemmy was a force of nature and the very essence of heavy metal, he says. Geddit?
Mr Wright says a star has already been named after Lemmy so that his name meets IUPACs naming requirements, which state that new elements can be named after a mythological concept, a mineral, a place or country, a property or a scientist. Lemmy was a rocknroll scientist, right?
After the four new synthetic elements are given names by the scientists who helped discover them, theyll be up for public review for five months before being confirmed and added to the periodic table.
Mr Wrights petition, which has almost 100 signatures at the time of writing, has already seen support from Guns N Roses bassist Duff McKagan, who shared the petition with his Twitter followers by retweeting Mr Wright.
Here is the petition...
https://www.change.org/p/support-lemmy-tribute-name-newly-discovered-heavy-metal-lemmium
The petition, launched today by Change.org user John Wright from York, UK, is calling on The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC, aka the peeps who deal with these sorts of things) to give Lemmys name to one of the four new elements, which currently have the pretty boring temporary titles ununtrium (113), ununpentium (115), ununseptium (117) and ununoctium (118).
Heavy rock lost its most iconic figure over Christmas with the sudden and unexpected death of Ian Lemmy Kilminster, says Mr Wright, before stating his very scientific case for Lemmium becoming a thing.
Lemmy was a force of nature and the very essence of heavy metal, he says. Geddit?
Mr Wright says a star has already been named after Lemmy so that his name meets IUPACs naming requirements, which state that new elements can be named after a mythological concept, a mineral, a place or country, a property or a scientist. Lemmy was a rocknroll scientist, right?
After the four new synthetic elements are given names by the scientists who helped discover them, theyll be up for public review for five months before being confirmed and added to the periodic table.
Mr Wrights petition, which has almost 100 signatures at the time of writing, has already seen support from Guns N Roses bassist Duff McKagan, who shared the petition with his Twitter followers by retweeting Mr Wright.
Here is the petition...
https://www.change.org/p/support-lemmy-tribute-name-newly-discovered-heavy-metal-lemmium
