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A worthy cause

I think I have found the reason why I'm a scientist, my purpose for being here as it were. Let's talk elements. Four elements were named after the Swedish town of Ytterby because they were discovered there. Yet when Tellurium was discovered a couple hundred years ago in Transylvania, some how we all lost out on what could have been the best element name ever: transylvanium. But no, we get Tellurium. I'm announcing right here, right now my campaign to rename tellurium to transylvanium.

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