At our meeting a week or so ago, while waiting for the computer to do something, I posed the following puzzle, cribbed from Will Shortz:
<blockquote><font color="#008000">The letters in the name of a certain chemical element can be rearranged to form a word which is known to everyone here but which was not a recognized English word (or not attested in writing) ten years ago.</font></blockquote>
A subsequent clue, as given to a few who have asked for one, was: the element is early in the periodic table, one of the first dozen.

The answer follows the "more" break.

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The element is Nitrogen, and the recently-formed word it anagrams to is "ringtone".