kurchatovium การใช้
- Element 104 : dubnium; changed from rutherfordium ( or kurchatovium ).
- The Russian scientists proposed the name "'kurchatovium "'and the American scientists suggested the name " rutherfordium " for the new element.
- In the Transfermium Wars element naming controversy, the USSR's proposed name for element 104 was " kurchatovium ", Ku, in honor of Kurchatov . Element 104 is now known as rutherfordium.
- In case of rival scientific claims ( a team from Dubna wanted to call rutherfordium " kurchatovium " after Igor Kurchatov, the Soviet nuclear physicist and bomb maker ), Iupac's Transfermium Working Group makes a judgment call.