Element 119 Discovered By Textbook Typo

Element 119 Discovered By Textbook Typo
chemistry-memes, periodic-table-memes, typo-memes, elements-memes, textbook-memes | ScienceHumor.io

Chemistry textbooks are sneaky! The equation shows sodium ethanoate + magnesium hydroxide, but someone underlined "Ma" in MaOH instead of the actual element Mg. So technically, they've "discovered" element 119 - "Maium" - by pure typographical error! The periodic table stops at 118 (Oganesson), making this accidental "Ma" element the frontier of fictional chemistry. Next Nobel Prize: spotting typos in textbooks!

More Like This