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Periodic Table Table
Ed Pegg Jr writes "Theo Gray, a co-creator of Mathematica, was originally a chemist. Needing a conference table, he created a Periodic Table using a variety of woods." It seems Theo is missing some elements for the table, in case you have any spare europium (in a proper container, of course) lying about. This isn't Theo's first piece of furniture. It looks like he has left a few spots for new elements, and it is nicely modular, in the event an element is found not to exist.
"I'm sure in 1985 Plutonium can be bought in every corner drug store, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by."
For optimal effect you must use the right plancks or else your table may not work correctly with present theories regarding quantum mechanics.
am constructing a Periodic Table, and i am just short of a few elemnets, Au and Ag, so if anybody has any spare, can they send them to me. Perferably in an appropriate conatiner, say a large truck.
Here we can see Theo Gray hard at work.
Needing a conference table, he created a Periodic Table
Then wood this be a meta-table?
*ducks*
Justin
If you put your plate on highly radioactive elements, your food will stay warm.
Don't listen to him, he's trying to fool you into sending him GOLD!!!! Don't fall for it!
As a chemist, I've always prided myself as having the most unusual periodic table - I wear only boxer shorts that have the periodic table printed all over them (my collegues no longer ask me for reference information due to my undressing to look up values too many times...). This table though does me one better - bravo! I shall now have to find an even geekier chic periodic table - the guantlet has been thrown, I accept the challenge!
I tried making a mandelbrot set table once.
I gave up because it seemed like there was always an endless amount of detail work left to do.
But then again, I could be wrong.
This week's installment:
stay tuned next week for: Helium
...gets the "uranium seat" (it's just a name son, don't worry about it)
And of course, some elements only have a half-life of a few microseconds, must be a PITA replacing them.
"Damn, all that Actinium 219 is gone ... back to the Synchrotron again."
Did you know you can fertilize your lawn with used motor oil?
when some other esteemed editor reposts this, it'll be the Periodic Periodic Table Table story, and I will be even happier. ;^)
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Are there any occasional elements out there?
I'd like an occasional table...
From my Autobiography - "Lifestyles of the Sad and Desperate"...
A huge bunch of kudos to the first person to imagemap that perodic table table to link to the actual element.
"Hey, nice table!"
"Thanks, it took me several w... OH JESUS CHRIST NO, DON'T OPEN THAT!"
(screaming and choking as they both inhale florine gas)
(dying breath): "Just...wanted...to...be...thorough.."
..... whose half life is measured in seconds. The heavy artifical ones.
:-)
After reading the original article I looked up the periodical table. I decided to find out which element officially has the highest Atomic Number. Ununbium has an atomic number of 112, but more intrestingly has a half-life of 240 microseconds.
Picture him removing the lid to show a friend (both in Radiation suits) - "It was here a second ago"
"Now, if I may digress momentarily from the mainstream of this evening's symposium, I'd like to sing a song which is completely pointless, but is something which I picked up during my career as a scientist. This may prove useful to some of you some day, perhaps, in a somewhat bizarre set of circumstances. It's simply the names of the chemical elements set to a possibly recognizable tune. "
The elements
Stop worrying about the risks of nuclear power and start worrying about the risks of not using nuclear power.
The triangle table kicks ass also! I sooo wish I could spend my whole life working on projects like this. Not tables, per se, but any little fanciful project I dream up. For instance, a lego statue of Seven of Nine.... oh god, its true what the bullies said. I AM a loser. I actually think a periodic table table is clever and cool!
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> It seems Theo is missing some elements for the table, in case you have any spare europium (in a proper container, of course) lying about.
If he doesn't find europium can't he just take someone elses?
The left side of the table is nice and stable, but the right side keeps wanting to explode. Maybe he should combine some of the elements on the right side to stabilize it.
Miko O'Sullivan