Saturday, February 5, 2011

Details of our evaluations

Today was a relaxation day for me.  I was studying for my science quizzes on the laboratory equipment and the elements.  I remember my science teacher, Mr.Schweitzer, telling our class a story about the names of the elements.  He told us that whenever there is an element represented by a letter which seems to have no similarity of the element in question, the letter represents the first letter of the latin name of the element.  For example, the element Potassium.  Since the symbol for Phosphorus is P, the symbol for Potassium is K, which is derived from kalium, the latin name of the element.  Mr.Schweitzer also told us that the elements Berkelium and Californium and named this because of the origin of their discovery : University of Berkly, California.  He then segued into telling us that there used to be complications with the naming of elements during the Cold War.  USA and the Soviet Union were arguing about who discovered which element at the time, which resulted in different names for the same elements.

I was also working on my superpower assignment.  It was straightforward as it is a simple HTML website.  I want to make the website more visually appealing, but that it a lot of work by using HTML. Right now, the website is plain, but i guess I have my day planned out for me tomorrow!

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