MOTÖRHEAD - Push For New Metal Element To Be Named After LEMMY
June 9, 2016, 8 years ago
The newest heavy metal quartet has debuted, but to the disappointment of more than 150,000 Motörhead fans, none of the members will be named for late rock legend Lemmy Kilmister, who died last December, reports David R. Merrell of ABC News.
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) announced Wednesday (June 8th) that four newly discovered elements added to the periodic table have been named by their discoverers and are up for public review.
A change.org petition aimed to name one of the superheavy elements "lemmium" was perhaps doomed from the start, as IUPAC has strict guidelines for the naming of elements:
"Keeping with tradition, newly discovered elements can be named after a mythological concept or character (including an astronomical object); a mineral or similar substance; a place, or a geographical region; a property of the element or a scientist."
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