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Two Elements Added To Periodic Table
smitty777 writes "Two new elements have been added to the periodic table of the elements. Elements 114 and 116 are the weightiest known, with atomic weights of 289 and 292 respectively. The discoverers are proposing flerovium and moscovium as names for these two new discoveries. There are also arguments being made to add in three more as well: 113, 115 and 118." We've noted element 114 in the past, but this is more official.
My Chucknorium TShirt is going to be out of date now...
...Are the weightiest.
...Are the craziest.
The chemists...
Waaaay, back home.
WTF is this?
whats wrong with heaviest
Should be called Lazarium. After all, it's safe to say nobody has an earlier claim of discovery. :) (Hey, I said nothing about any actual discovery, just a claim of one.)
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Farnsworthium?
"Good news, everyone!"
element 115 is not given the name Elerium, in honour of the fictional element used to power the spacecraft in the XCOM series. Ununpentium is dull and doesn't really roll off the tongue!
Unobtanium?
What happened to that un uh um oo ee oo ah ah standardized naming system?
Did they finally realize it sucked the passion and romance right out of the periodic table?
The real issue isn't these elements which are unstable and not that interesting. The real question is whether the island of stability exists and how close we are to it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability If current theories are correct then there may be a section of elements with atomic numbers near 120 that are much more stable. They might even be stable enough to be used for practical purposes if we can synthesize them on a large scale. Depending on the exact model, they might have half-lives as short as a few seconds (which for elements in this range is comparatively large but not large enough to use for any practical purposes) or it might be as much as 100,000 years (there are more optimistic estimates but they seem extremely unlikely). For comparison, tritium has a half-life of about 12 years and is used in a lot of practical applications. So, if the island exists and we find good ways to synthesize these elements, then we might get some very interesting chemistry.
Oh, Elerium 115 is comiiiing! Now we need to get some Alien Alloys...
“Element 114 obviously isn’t a very catchy name, especially in a sea of molybdenums and seaborgiums. They have temporary titles — ununquadium and ununhexium — but final names are yet to been decided.
Obviously, the elements must roll off the tongue as well as molybdenum.
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
almost obligatory whenever these kinds of stories pop up on slashdot:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_elements,_materials,_isotopes_and_atomic_particles
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Flerovium? I vote a rename in favor of Wonderflonium.
This moscovium made me think of other elements named for places. Europium and Americium for continents. Lutetium for Paris, Californium for California. Dubnium for Dubna, a city in Russia. Francium and Gallium for France, Germanium for Germany, Polonium for Poland), Hafnium for Copenhagen, Holmium for Stockholm (these last 2 from their Latin names). Then Hassium for Hesse (Germany), Rhenium for Eastern France (jk :D), Ruthenium for the old region in Ukraine-Russia, Strontium for a village in Scotland, Berkelium for Berkeley, and Thulium for a mythical island in the north Pole.
A special mention to the lucky sweddish village of Ytterby that has four elements named in its honor: Yttrium, Ytterbium, Erbium, and Terbium.
In soviet russia the government regulates the companies.
I vote "Yomamamium" to be the name of the weightiest element.
I hope they had at least the courtesy to add the new elements at the bottom, so old tables can be updated more easily.
George. I will call it George
Now I'll have to wait for ver 1.1 of http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/gear/8a2f/
Obviously
I hope they had at least the courtesy to add the new elements at the bottom, so old tables can be updated more easily.
This reminds me of when I was in junior high science class -- we were taught that electrons ORBITED the nucleus. I didn't find out differently until my college astronomy class.
They are the names of the horses Paul Revere used in his famous "Threaten the British" tour...
elements name YOU!
It should have been called Elerium.
ununpentium
Does Intel have nothing not to do with this one? (double negative there).
how about fatassium and heavyasshitium. No, I am not serious but hey it's Monday.
I read this as Rumpelstiltskin
was how I read that very quickly.... I'm sure he could come up with a rhyme for it too
According to my Oscar Meyer periodic table of elements, element 120 is called Baloneyium. -- The Simpsons
Wake me up when they find a new element with a *lower* atomic number than the ones we are accustomed to now. Maybe one with zero protons called Hallucinatium (Ha!).
The periodic table is organized in order of atomic number (amongst other things), so I'm sure that wouldn't be a problem.
'Nuff said.
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
FTW
You know what they say about opinions. They're all fabulous!
It's really about time an element was named Daltonium. It was John Dalton who came up with the original ideas that led to correct theories about the structure of the atom and what an element was, yet his name is not honoured, and is passed over again and again for silly names. It's almost as if people have forgotten him....
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Elements#Element_115:_.28Euphonium.29
they do 'orbit", but those quantum mechanical "orbitals" are not like any kind of planetary trajectories. Deeply funky shit, no?