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Started by Paradox, April 07, 2010, 07:56:42 PM

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Paradox

Sorry to steal DarklingAlice's thunder about the new scaly crawly thing, but there's a new element!

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/04/finally-element-117-is-here.html


"More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality."-Robert A. Baker

NCIJade

Neat! I love cutting edge science like this. I wonder what applications they will find for this type of thing.

Also, I couldn't help but pick out this line:

"Nuclear chemists at the world's most intense neutron source, the High Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee[...]"

Woo! My state is the MOST INTENSE when it comes to neutron sources. >_>

DarklingAlice

S'okay Para, my thunder is gladly given to news of new elements! I guess I will have to get out a pen and update my periodic tables...
For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, elegant, and wrong.


Tachi

I am so not going back to school for this!  XD

Jude

Fascinating stuff, especially how it relates to the Island of Stability.

DngrMse

Quote from: Paradox on April 07, 2010, 07:56:42 PM
Sorry to steal DarklingAlice's thunder about the new scaly crawly thing, but there's a new element!

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/04/finally-element-117-is-here.html

Quote"island of stability," a group of superheavy nuclei still tantalizingly out of reach that theorists predict may be as stable as more familiar elements.

Imagine the SciFi possibilities!  Granted these superheavies will share some similarities with other elements in their family, but still.