New Elements: Uut and Uup
March 29, 2004 11:12 AM Subscribe
Time to replace your old Periodic Table. ...a joint American-Russian team has found two new elements—numbers 113 and 115 on the periodic table—hinting at an impending breakthrough in creating novel forms of matter that will test our understanding of atomic behavior.
Who can tell me the atomic weight of bolognium?
posted by eddydamascene at 12:50 PM on March 29, 2004
posted by eddydamascene at 12:50 PM on March 29, 2004
This discovery confirms a long-held theory in nuclear physics that there is a region of enhanced stability at the margin of the periodic table.
Interesting. I didn't retain a lot of my high-school chemistry, but I remember a lot of internal eye-rolling when learning about elements whose lifespan was almost immeasurable. I did think this part was pretty amusing:
After running cyclotron day and night for a month, Patin and company produced four atoms each of the new elements, enough to study how they decay.
Well, I guess ROI is all a matter (pardon the pun) of perspective ;)
Cool link!
posted by mkultra at 1:00 PM on March 29, 2004
Interesting. I didn't retain a lot of my high-school chemistry, but I remember a lot of internal eye-rolling when learning about elements whose lifespan was almost immeasurable. I did think this part was pretty amusing:
After running cyclotron day and night for a month, Patin and company produced four atoms each of the new elements, enough to study how they decay.
Well, I guess ROI is all a matter (pardon the pun) of perspective ;)
Cool link!
posted by mkultra at 1:00 PM on March 29, 2004
Who can tell me the atomic weight of bolognium?
Uh... snacktacular?
posted by mcgraw at 1:04 PM on March 29, 2004
Uh... snacktacular?
posted by mcgraw at 1:04 PM on March 29, 2004
Who can tell me the atomic weight of bolognium?
Uh... snacktacular?
In SI units, it's delicious.
posted by funkbrain at 1:12 PM on March 29, 2004
Uh... snacktacular?
In SI units, it's delicious.
posted by funkbrain at 1:12 PM on March 29, 2004
Smoke Detectors and Americium
Present at Creation (a little more on element 114)
posted by eddydamascene at 1:16 PM on March 29, 2004
Present at Creation (a little more on element 114)
posted by eddydamascene at 1:16 PM on March 29, 2004
Or you could just replace your old periodic table with the much more compact periodic table of sloth.
posted by onlyconnect at 3:45 PM on March 29, 2004
posted by onlyconnect at 3:45 PM on March 29, 2004
A nice chart of atomic stability regions.
for some reason, that chart reminds me of the NES classic, Metroid?
posted by mcsweetie at 4:01 PM on March 29, 2004
for some reason, that chart reminds me of the NES classic, Metroid?
posted by mcsweetie at 4:01 PM on March 29, 2004
A nice chart of atomic stability regions.
Coo, vacapinta! Edward Tufte would be proud.
posted by ZenMasterThis at 4:03 PM on March 29, 2004
Coo, vacapinta! Edward Tufte would be proud.
posted by ZenMasterThis at 4:03 PM on March 29, 2004
i love the science threads. like the life on mars and this one. seriously. i just always get to them too late.
posted by folktrash at 4:45 PM on March 29, 2004
posted by folktrash at 4:45 PM on March 29, 2004
I guess it's 118 that would be noble, which is what I'm really waiting for with eagerness.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 5:54 PM on March 29, 2004
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 5:54 PM on March 29, 2004
Er, "cool," not "coo." Damn.
posted by ZenMasterThis at 7:19 PM on March 29, 2004
posted by ZenMasterThis at 7:19 PM on March 29, 2004
Glenn Seaborg announced the discovery of americium on a children's game show. Oh, how our intellectual culture has declined!
posted by jonp72 at 9:23 PM on March 29, 2004
posted by jonp72 at 9:23 PM on March 29, 2004
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