Abstract
WOLFENDEN1 emphasizes the trivial basis of the nomenclature of the elements. In a systematic system the elements need only be named by their atomic numbers. Numerical subscripts could be replaced by letters, for example, water would become 1b8.
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Wolfenden, A., Nature, 211, 632 (1966).
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