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Offline minithin

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Symbol change: Lawrencium
« on: August 24, 2006, 09:19:02 PM »
Lw was the original symbol for Lawrencium. It was later changed to Lr. We were talking about this at work today... does anyone here know why this change was made?

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Offline Winga

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Re: Symbol change: Lawrencium
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2006, 10:29:57 PM »
I have an old book (1978), the symbol has been using Lr since at least 1978.
So, when did it change?   
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Re: Symbol change: Lawrencium
« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2006, 02:04:02 AM »
My copy of "Man-Made Tranuranium Elements", by Glenn T. Seaborg, copyright 1963, uses Lw.

I have no idea why it was changed, however.
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Re: Symbol change: Lawrencium
« Reply #3 on: August 25, 2006, 03:57:26 AM »
I think IUPAC preferred Lr to Lw as Lw was only a sugguesting symbol.
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Re: Symbol change: Lawrencium
« Reply #4 on: August 25, 2006, 11:46:54 AM »
according to the mighty wikipedia, Lw was changed to Lr in 1963 and was ratified by IUPAC in 1997

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