ASNEK: btw..když jsem si k tomu hledal zdroj.
Správně by plutonium mělo mít zkratku Pl, ale Glenn Seaborg zvolil Pu -> jako vtip navrhl zkraku pro Pee-yoo, jakožto dětský výraz, že něco smrdí.
“The obvious choice for the symbol would have been Pl,” wrote chemists David Clark and David Hobart in 2000, “but facetiously, Seaborg suggested Pu, like the words a child would exclaim, Pee-yoo!” when smelling something bad.
An 80-Year-Old Prank Revealed, Hiding in the Periodic Table!https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/an-80-year-old-prank-is-revealed-hiding-in-the-periodic-tablePlus si kluci vytvořili celou sadu prvků. Seaborg se zvěčnil do Seaborgium (106).
The American chemist Glenn Seaborg came up with this name after his colleagues found neptunium (element 93) the year before. He and his team at Berkeley had a cyclotron that smashed particles together and so they had an incredible run of discoveries: americium (95), curium (96), berkelium (97), californium (98), einsteinium (99), fermium (100), mendelevium (101), nobelium (102), and finally (and he’s the only guy who got his name on an element while still alive), seaborgium (106).