Overlooked alternate history: chemical element names. The transuranics' names, especially, are in for some improvement in my universe.

Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2022/10/17/on-etymologies-of-the-elements/

This post's featured image is Johann Ender's "From Darkness, the Light: Allegory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences".

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The periodic table we know is only the beginning, for just beyond it lie islands of stability and even whole new forms of matter.

Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2022/10/12/the-final-frontiers-of-the-periodic-table/

This post's featured image is Henrika Šantel's "The Chemist".

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