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Chemical Element 110 To Be Named
An anonymous reader writes "According to Nature Magazine, chemists will vote in Ottawa, Canada this week, and are expected to approve the chemical element 110's informal moniker, 'darmstadtium', and give it the chemical symbol Ds. The title honors the Laboratory for Heavy Ion Research (called GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany, where the substance was first made. It seems that 'disputes over claimed sightings of new elements have [previously] led to acrimonious and nationalistic battles over naming', but not in this case."
Ununnilium isn't good enough for them? Sir Ununnil must be rolling over in his grave.
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Element: WOMAN
Symbol: Wo
Atomic Weight: 120 +/-
Physical Properties: Generally round in form. Boils at nothing and may freeze anytime. Melts whenever treated properly. Very bitter if not used well.
Chemical Properties: Very active. Possesses strong affinity to gold, silver, platinum, and precious stones. Violent when left alone. Able to absorb great amount of exotic food. Turns slightly green when placed beside a better specimen. Ages rapidly.
Usage: Highly ornamental. An extremely good catalyst for disintegration of wealth. Probably the most powerful income reducing agent known.
Caution: Highly explosive in inexperienced hands.
Didn't they realize Darmstadtium is an anagram of "Mama Rudd's Tit"?
What the hell were they thinking?
Your hybrid is not saving the environment. Its purpose is to make you feel good about buying something.
Scientists have announced within days of the discovery of element 110, the new element 111 provisionally named "SLASHDOTIUM". The discovery opens the door to a new group of elements that should fall in quick succession. The team are working hard on geekium, freakium and phrackium. However elements past his group look more difficult to identify. "We had high hopes we could pin down muckrosoftium as element 115 - but the damn thing just wasn't stable".
You forgot:
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Frequently located in small clusters inside shopping malls or near restrooms, but can pretty much be found everywhere except
The unofficial
001 Earth
010 Wind
011 Fire
100 Water
101 ?
110 Darmstadtium
Please can anyone fill in the gap. What's the element 101?
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I've just taken chemistry for the past 2 years, so I should easily know these; but then again, we didn't concentrate on nuclear chemistry, 'cause "It Wasn't On The AP Exam(TM)." Stupid stoichiometry...
#4 is sorta correct. Something like plutonium-239 has a half-life of 2.411x10^4 years, but lawrencium-257 has one of 0.65 seconds.
As the elements 111 and 112 are also discovered by GSI, and the whole hierarchy Europium (element 63), Germanium (32), Hassium (108) and now Darmstadtium (110) is taken, I am really curious how they will name these two.
:-)
Maybe, they'll take Wixhausenium (GSI is located in a district of Darmstadt called Wixhausen), but that wouldn't be too good as the german word Wichsen means "jerk off...", and the words Wix... and Wichs... are spoken exactly the same.
Damnstraightium
"Pounds - not kilograms?"
Or, married vs looking.
scodelirium. Uncovered in germany, not to be found naturally, makes front page of slashdot. forgot, short lived...
Indeed. It's an old joke in Dutch to say "I'm expecting a fax from Darmstadt" to excuse yourself to go for a shit...
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Man, I sure hope you're not working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Try taking 92 shots of vodka and being stable after that.
Indeed. It's an old German joke, saying somebody comes from Darmstadt, meaning: he's gay.
Weil: Verkehr findet im Darm statt.
Because: Intercourse takes place in the intestines.
(I guess the translation lacks of the joking elements, but at least the Germans can laugh... maybe...)
Two pretzels were walking down the street, and one was assaulted.
At least they did not name it after the part of Darmstadt where the GSI is actually located, which is called 'Wixhausen'...
...which means 'Wankville'...
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What, like Aluminium?
Boron.
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Since it has no electrons, Caltransium is inert; however, it can be detected chemically, as it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. According to the Berkeley discoverers, a minute amount of Caltransium caused one reaction to take over four days to complete, when it would normally have occurred in less than one second.
Caltransium has a normal half-life of approximately three years at which time it does not actually decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which assistant neutrons, vice neutrons, and assistant vice-neutrons exchange places. Some tests have shown that the atomic number actually increases after each reorganization, although it is not yet clear where the extra morons may originate. Research at other laboratories indicate that Caltransium is known to be highly toxic at any level of concentration and can easily destroy any productive reactions where it is allowed to accumulate. Attempts are being made to determine how Caltransium can be controlled to prevent irreversible damage, but results to date are not promising. Due to lack of funding, U.C. Berkeley has no plans for further evaluation.
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The Element Formerly Known As Ununnilium.
What surprises me the most is that nobody has proposed the name to be Cowboynealadium yet.
IMO, it would help out the scientific community immensely if we were to sell the naming rights for new elements to the highest bidder. Instead of some faceless community pondering the appropriate name, just put it on the auction block. Then we'd get meaningful names suitable for posterity, like Enron (pronounced En-ern), Pacbellium, Microsoftite, Pepsium...
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Sorry, dudes, SGC already named this element. It's called "naquada" (sp?). Of course, due to the top secret classification of SG-1, you won't see it published in scientific journals. Oops, secret's out! Oh, and Saddam and Osama are Gu'ald... ;-)
A major research institution has recently announced the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science. This new element has been tentatively named "Administratium."
Administratium has 1 neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 111 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by a force called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.
Since Administratium has no electrons, it is inert.However, it can be detected as it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A minute amount of Administratium causes one reaction to take over four days to complete when it would normally take less than a second.
Administratium has a normal half-life of three years; it does not decay but instead undergoes reorganization. In fact, Administratium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization causes some morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes. This characteristic of moron-promotion leads some scientists to speculate that Administratium is formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as "critical morass." You will know it when you see it...
Actually, you can and you hardly need to do anything for it. It happens all by itself. Let me refresh your memory:
(written by William DeBuvitz in April 1988, published in the January 1989 issue of The Physics Teacher; there is also a related publication by Ellin Beltz about Administrontium)