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Published online 15 August 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030811-8

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Element 110 to be named tomorrow

Chemists meet in Ottawa to vote on 'darmstadtium'.

Chemical element 110, which was discovered in 1994, will finally get a name tomorrow.

A committee will vote at this weekend's General Assembly of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) in Ottawa, Canada.

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