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Periodic Table To Welcome Two New Elements
adeelarshad82 writes "Chemistry's periodic table can soon welcome livermorium and flerovium, two newly named elements, which were announced Thursday (Dec. 1) by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. The new names will undergo a five-month public comment period before the official paperwork gets processed and they show up on the table. Three other new elements just recently finished this process, filling in the 110, 111 and 112 spots."
Will they ever name an element Colbertium, after Stephen T. Colbert, DFA?
Anything but that!
I have a number of people to coordinate in order to make sure it ends up with the name Elerium.
Were these stable elements - or did they exist as a product of some super-collision for fractions of a second?
this table is updated periodically.
Livermorium, holy yuk! That's worse than Moland Springs [tv sitcom reference]
i was going to try some biotic implants
I Lv U?
(slightly radioactive)
Atomic number 115 still hasn't been named (or confirmed, according to TFA), but I know what it should be named when the time comes.
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
When is that going to get added? Hmm?
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
Make 'em name of them Spunk.
.... livermorium and onionium.
Check your premises.
A certain large software company has already patented the use of HTML "BLINK" tags when displaying the new elements in a periodic table.
What is the purpose of creating these elements with ridiculously low half-lives that they can barely be detected. I mean I heard about the islands of stability like element 127 or 135 etc. But even those were calculated to be extremely short-lived. So while I am happy to see our science progress, I am unable to grasp what the real import of progress in this matter is.
Can someone throw some light please?
Are any of these elements particularly susceptible to bouncing?
Wont every school now have to replace there periodic tables with the new updated version?
I don't like liver. Can we call it "Liverlessium" instead?
Chemistry's periodic table can soon welcome livermorium and flerovium, two newly named elements
Welcome welcome! Would you like some Ti?
..You just made next year's college chemistry students have to buy a new edition of the textbook. College books might just be affordable if people would just stop learning new things.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
"Elements cannot be broken down any further." Which is true but only half the story. "Because if they do, then they become something else." is the other half of the story.
These gigantic atoms are unstable. You can make them but they quickly fall apart into the things they were made of. Like a house of cards in a windy room.
The research teams are taking large atoms and firing them at other large atoms to make these gigantic atoms. They only last for a few moments before they fall back apart into the large atoms they were originally made of.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
Always trying to take out Bond(s).
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
"the element that cannot be named" ?
Sig?
...so long as Plutonium remains classified an element.
Anyone else think they sound like made-up names from really bad science fictions movies?
I'm waiting for the magical, life-changing element #125, that should either be called Protonite, or Magicium -- because it will be.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
I propose renaming Element 001 Hydrogen to MAFIAAium, for the incredible coincidence that the effective copyright term for Steamboat Willie and the Beatles catalog exactly match the half-life time of this element.
I wonder how he will capture these elements for his table
Sadly, the last line of Tom Lehrer's "The Elements" is getting more and more out of date as the years go by.
Even the list of new elements at the end of this animation is getting out of date... http://privatehand.com/flash/elements.html
I wish I lived on an island of stability.
They need to include morecowbellium. How could they forget this lightweight, metallic element, which could be used to produce one of the most pleasant should in all the multiverse.
Huh?
A billion years from now, we will name element #666.
The rabbit hole of classifying elements is infinitely deep.
This is because the universe was not designed from the top down; It was created from the bottom up. We may not know exactly what the fabric of space-time itself is made of, if anything at all, but that is what things are actually made of.
It's useful to name stable configurations of space-time+energy (mater), much like it's nice to have a name for a musical note; However unlike with matter, with music we understand the fundamental concepts of sound, and don't get excited over every new higher or lower note we've just "proven" exists on the Universe's scale.
We started with the 4 elements, but that wasn't right; Things are made of many small "indivisible" things called Atoms... No! There are Quarks! Nay, There is a Zoo of quantum particles + waves! Wait, there's some fuzzy yet un-knowable property to these things...
In time, we'll decipher yet another lower level set of "properties" on our quest to discover that this whole Universe was just an energetic pebble being dropped into a space-time pond. The complex interactions of some of the waves have become sentient and they look at their surrounding structures, and categorize and label all the very complex patterns they see. "What happened Before the Pebble Dropped (big bang)", Some will ask -- The pond was there, certainly; This concept of "nothingness" is merely the lack of energy -- a smooth part of the pond that we can not comprehend or experience because, as energy waves ourselves we can only interact with other waves.
You see, once we understand the lower levels the upper levels aren't so interesting anymore. I read the article as: "Eureka! We've proven more notes exist!" To me, it's like a toddler learning to count to higher and higher numbers before they've mastered basic mathematics and/or the concept of infinity.
Lucky for him it wasn't as spontaneously radioactive as the previous dozen new elements had been...
Cooperium!
Dilithium
Sent as ripples into the electromagnetic field. No single photon has been harmed in the process.
I wonder if Adobe will object over the appropriation of their trademarked [Fl] icon by the periodic table?
http://alternatives.rzero.com/
I work for a company that makes periodic tables. They haven't updated their posters yet but I just updated the free A4 color periodic table download they have with these new names on it. You can download it here:
http://www.science-story.com/periodic-table-up-to-date-large-poster.php
Enjoy!
how about Frinkium? Bombastium also comes to mind. Or just break with the -iums and call one flubber.