Harmonium

[Impact he/him]

Why does everyone call it harmonium instead of "sazedium"?

 

No one calls it "ruinium" or "preservium".  They say atium and lerasium

[+Artemos he/him]

Pretty simple answer: Harmonium sounds better.

youshallnotpass

Will there be a metal called harmonium in the mistborn world?

Brandon Sanderson

RAFO. But good question.

WeiryWriter

Just an fyi but you have confirmed the existence of harmonium before. (And this is probably a RAFO, but is there a reason you didn't follow the convention of the other "god metals" and call it something like sazedium? "Harmonium" just seems out of place.)

Brandon Sanderson

Sazed didn't like the sound of Sazedium.

/r/books AMA 2015 (July 6, 2015)  

Edited September 4, 2019 by Artemos

[Karger he/him]

Sazedium sounds stupid.

[Impact he/him]

2 hours ago, Artemos said:

Pretty simple answer: Harmonium sounds better.

youshallnotpass

Will there be a metal called harmonium in the mistborn world?

Brandon Sanderson

RAFO. But good question.

WeiryWriter

Just an fyi but you have confirmed the existence of harmonium before. (And this is probably a RAFO, but is there a reason you didn't follow the convention of the other "god metals" and call it something like sazedium? "Harmonium" just seems out of place.)

Brandon Sanderson

Sazed didn't like the sound of Sazedium.

/r/books AMA 2015 (July 6, 2015)  

Fair enough, thanks

[Halyo_Alex he/him]

then again, Sazeium not only works better, mostly acts like atium/lerasium in name, but also sounds like Cesium, which it does act like, exploding in water.

[Weltall]

Yeah, but it's kind of hard to argue with your god when he tells you he doesn't like that name. 

[Kingsdaughter613 she/her]

On 9/4/2019 at 1:54 PM, Halyo_Alex said:

then again, Sazeium not only works better, mostly acts like atium/lerasium in name, but also sounds like Cesium, which it does act like, exploding in water.

I suspect this is Saze’s inherent modesty. I doubt he was comfortable having his name attached to a metal. His Shardic intent was more acceptable.

It’s worth noting that in-world the metal has been called Et metal. I wonder if Saze mentioned this to Kell, and he gave it an unrelated name as a favor?

[+Artemos he/him]

14 hours ago, Kingsdaughter613 said:

I suspect this is Saze’s inherent modesty. I doubt he was comfortable having his name attached to a metal. His Shardic intent was more acceptable.

It’s worth noting that in-world the metal has been called Et metal. I wonder if Saze mentioned this to Kell, and he gave it an unrelated name as a favor?

The name ettmetal is a result of the imperfect translation magic between the north and the south. "Ett" could mean anything for them.

[Impact he/him]

On ‎9‎/‎4‎/‎2019 at 1:54 PM, Halyo_Alex said:

then again, Sazeium not only works better, mostly acts like atium/lerasium in name, but also sounds like Cesium, which it does act like, exploding in water.

I agree wholeheartedly.  I always think that Sazedium sounds like something you'd actually find on the periodic table

[Kingsdaughter613 she/her]

6 hours ago, Impact said:

I agree wholeheartedly.  I always think that Sazedium sounds like something you'd actually find on the periodic table

Someone should create an element and name it this.

[HSuperLee]

5 hours ago, Kingsdaughter613 said:

Someone should create an element and name it this.

Unfortunately it's kind of unlikely we're discover a new element anytime soon. At least a stable one. We might make some big ones that only last a fraction of a second. Which might actually be appropriate.

[Halyo_Alex he/him]

4 hours ago, HSuperLee said:

Unfortunately it's kind of unlikely we're discover a new element anytime soon. At least a stable one. We might make some big ones that only last a fraction of a second. Which might actually be appropriate.

actually, in theory, we may stumble upon a new plateau of stable nuclei if we can go high enough in atomic number. So we might find some supermassive elements that are not radioactive (on a practical timescale)