The accompanying file "The Atomic Elements" is a dictionary file for
use with the excellent, freeware, dictionary program "Excalibur" by
Rick Zaccone and Robert Gottshall, which may be obtained from their
website at http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~excalibr/excalibur.html

Whilst the standard (i.e. American-English) dictionary that
accompanies "Excalibur" does contain the names of the first 103
elements (hydrogen (H) to lawrencium (Lr)), it does not include their
associated chemical symbols. Also, since it is an American-English
dictionary, it spells "aluminium" (pronounced "al-yu-min-ee-um") as
"aluminum" ("a-loo-mi-num") since this is how Americans pronounce it.

To address these issues, this dictionary contains the accepted English
spellings, as given by the International Union of Pure and Applied
Chemistry (IUPAC), of:

- 109 elements and their chemical symbols; hydrogen (H) to meitnerium
(Mt) Elements 104-108 are: rutherfordium (Rf); dubnium (Db);
seaborgium (Sg); bohrium (Bh) and hassium (Hs).

- Three temporary IUPAC names and chemical symbols for the discovered
elements, 110-112.  These are ununnilium (Uun), unununium (Uuu) and
ununbium (Uub). [See below for IUPAC nomenclature for unnamed
elements]

- The two isotopes of hydrogen, deuterium (D or [2,1]H) and tritium (T
or [3,1]H)

- Aludium Phosdex, the Shaving Cream Atom (only joking!)

Obviously, this dictionary is only really useful to a dedicated few,
namely scientists and students, but I hope that it is as useful to
someone else as it has been to me. Should any new elements be
discovered/created/named then please let me know.