Talk:Periodic Table

Not sure its accurate to say the two elements had different names due to US and CS hostility. Rather, both were discovered during wartime in top secret research projects. The CS and Britain were allies but came up with different names and I imagine Germany had its own names. After the war, the winning side (US and Germany in this case) would come to some agreement. This happened in OTL with higher trans-uranium elements with US and Soviet researchers (and others too) coming up with tentative names with the final name recognized by the International Chemistry Union based on the name given by the researcher(s) who made the discovery first. ML4E 23:35, March 12, 2010 (UTC)