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Four Elements Added To Periodic Table (theguardian.com)
physburn writes: The Guardian reports that four new elements, with atomic numbers 113, 115, 117, and 118, have been formally added to the periodic table. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has now initiated the process of formalizing names and symbols for these elements. "The RIKEN collaboration team in Japan have fulfilled the criteria for element Z=113 and will be invited to propose a permanent name and symbol." 115 and 117, with the temporary names of ununpentium and ununseptium, will be named by researchers from Oak Ridge and Lawrence Livermore national labs in the U.S., as well as from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Russia. 118, known for now as ununoctium, will be named by the same group minus the Oak Ridge researchers. Professor Paul Karol said, "A particular difficulty in establishing these new elements is that they decay into hitherto unknown isotopes of slightly lighter elements that also need to be unequivocally identified, but in the future we hope to improve methods that can directly measure the atomic number, Z."
Let Bob Lazar name 115, since he claimed that was the element which powered the alien flying saucers he worked on at S-3.
Lazarium. Toaster Struedelium. I dunno.
Sig for hire.
So let's jack the price up say $250-$300 the unlimited student loan will cover it.
call me a greybeard but ill be in the cold cold ground before I recognize Ununseptium. These damn kids with their designer isotopes that clock less than a second of half-life. superheavy artificial chemical elements are almost as offensive as those hooligans in the physics department with their infernal "strings." "oh its just a theoretical framework, daddy-o, in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced..." theyll say, but what in the hell do you put in place of them!? "those groovy one-dimensional objects called strings." theyll croon, probably high on their marijuana reefer cigarettes.
Mark my words, this never would have happened if Reagan were still president, and the science department hadn't quit making me handle mercury in my cupped hands for demonstrations.
Good people go to bed earlier.
If it's not found in nature, then they all should be called Unobtanium.
More like unobtania, since there are now 28 of them.
Leg1, Leg2, Leg3, and Leg4.
Finally the periodic table gets off the ground.
The RIKEN collaboration team in Japan have fulfilled the criteria for element Z=113 and will be invited to propose a permanent name and symbol
A radioactive super-heavy element from Japan?: Godzillium.
If it's not found in nature, then they all should be called Unobtanium.
Just because we haven't found it existing in nature, doesn't mean that it does not or cannot. Especially with heavier elements, there can be situations where they ought to exist naturally but would decay so rapidly that detecting them would be next to impossible.
So... No. Let's not do that. Especially since it would serve to only further inflate someone's massively oversize Ego.
For those interested: Materials science in science fiction
The (few) identified atoms of each new element had all specific and measured neutron counts. And they still possess half-lifes in the seconds range.
Reacting uranium with anything does not (measurably) change its decay rate. Uraninite is NO exception.
it's right in so many ways. It captures the fear and dangers of nuclear work along with the awesome power. perfect.
however I can't help but think this is just plot by the periodic table printing industry to force us all to upgrade the wall chart. What next? do I have to buy the white album again too?
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
That means four more cartridges for my 3D printer!
But you're still going to keep running out of astatine first.
That is all.
You are all cowniums! Cowniums say "mooonium, mooonium", Come on, say mooonium, you periodic cowniums!
An element that is so unstable that it can only exist for fractions of a second before total and complete decay is while an "element" is basically useless, except for theoretical applications (at this point). I would hold of naming and further identification until we can produce enough of it to be useful.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Tell that to Doc Brown when he obtained Plutonium...
Yes it's an anecdote! Were you expecting original research in a Slashdot comment?
Which one?
JADBP
So how long until the periodic table app on my smartphone shows them?
The one I use already seems to have them listed https://play.google.com/store/...
but is there a nicer one around? I think I might try https://play.google.com/store/...
I'm still bitter that I only made it to Silicon in Atomas (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sirnic.atomas&hl=en) ... I suppose it'll be a long time before these new entries make any impact there...
... so unstable that it can only exist for fractions of a second ... is basically useless
Oh, I dont know... "attractium" is pretty rare and doesnt last long, but the decay can be delayed with ethanol long enough to have some specific practical, uh, uses. And it's quite stable in the presence of some heavy metals like gold and silver, and especially certain forms of crystallized carbon. Of course the longer you keep it stable, the more dangerous and expensive it is to dispose of when it does finally decay.
Expensive with short half lives?
iPodium113, iPodium115, iPodium117, iPodium118.
USB, USB, USB!
As of yet, there are no elements named after Japan, or any part of it, and there are many, many elements named after places, so this would be fitting.
More importantly, it would start generations of stoners on the habit of telling each other "let's go do some element 113", thinking they're being clever when in fact they're being about as transparent as if they'd shouted "420".
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
No good. Plutonium is now a dwarf element.
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Now we need to add The Fitfth Element to the periodic table.
If it's not found in nature, then they all should be called Unobtanium.
More like unobtania, since there are now 28 of them.
unicornium, unicornucopia
Let's just call them after Ytterby, as yttrium (Y), erbium (Er), terbium (Tb), and ytterbium (Yb) are already.
We could have yttermium, erbinium, terbinium, erbytterium...
Been telling people this for years.
- Dan
Kc for Kimocium (kimochi....kimochi.. :-p but seriously, Rk for Rikenium or Jp for Japanium (Np for Nipponium is already taken by Neptunium :-)
Since these decay so fast, perhaps one of them should be called Unobtainium.