• joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    Also, Mercury was known as Quicksilver until the early 1930s, but then it needed to be changed to Hogium after a copyright claim from Marvel Comics

  • leftofthat [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Marie Curie was one of the first time travelers. She went back to ancient Greece but Plato hit her with a chariot. When she woke they asked her who she was and she panicked, telling everyone she was the god of speed.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      11 months ago

      It's a joke. The element with atomic number 96 was named Curium (symbol Cm) in honor of Marie Curie (and I guess Pierre Curie too).

      Mercury is a different element, known since the Antiquety (not as a periodic-table-element of course, but they knew it as a thing since before the Egypt pyramids were built, (like gold, copper, chloride, etc)). It has atomic number 80, and its symbol is "Hg", from the greek name "hydrargyrum". But people called it "mercury" centuries before Marie was even born.

      It's also called quicksilver.

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      • Magician [he/him, they/them]
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        11 months ago

        Okay, thanks! I was about to write a comment taking this seriously and figured I'd ask first.