Names and symbols for the transfermium elements
Revised recommendations for the names and symbols of the transfermium elements(atomic numbers 101-109) are presented along with the reasons for proposing them. The recommendations (ref. 1) of the Commission on Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry (CNIC) on the nomenclature of the transfermium elements (101-109, inclusive) were considered by the IUPAC Bureau at Guildford (UK) in September 1995. As a result of the various criticisms of the recommendations and theway that they had been processed, the Bureau decided to adopt the recommendations as provisional
