Talk:Administratium

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This article contain(ed) satirical material posted as fact. I deleted the relevant sections.

I thought you would like to know the true author of the Administratium story. All of the information on Administratium is in the latest (summer 2005) issue of the Journal Of Irreproducible Results. The original author is William DeBuvitz and the first time it was published was in THE PHYSICS TEACHER back in the late 1980's.

165.230.185.76, if you have access to that material, why don't you write about it yourself? 128.12.181.34 05:31, 20 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hope that these refrences may be useful.

From physicist Donald Simanek's pages. 'New Chemical Element Discovered' - William DeBuvitz (January 1989 issue of 'The Physics Teacher.') http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/administ.htm

Ellin Beltz wrote an article for The Journal of Irreproducible Results (1994) on 'administrontium' and 'bureacratritium' - he gives credit to DeBuvitz for the inspiration/origin: http://ebeltz.net/resume/jir.html

DeBuvitz speaks out: http://wagoneers.com/MISC/History/Humor/administratium-author.txt (Can't find the original source)

The Spoof?

How about an explanation of the spoof itself? The article doesn't really answer the question of what administratium is.

BostonRed (talk) (Remark added 23 March 2009)

It is the heaviest known chemical element, has no protons or electrons, one neutron, and enough assistant neutrons, vice neutrons and assistant vice neutrons to total 312 neutrons. It impedes every chemical reaction it comes in contact with, and accumulates around government offices, for example. There's a lot more than that, but that's the bare basics of it. GBC (talk) 04:35, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]