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Your Periodic Table is now out of date!

Discussion in 'News from the UK, Europe and the rest of the World' started by Kuya, Jun 5, 2012.

  1. Kuya
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    Kuya The Geeky One Staff Member

    This is for you science geeks out there... :D Two of the heaviest elements on the periodic table were officially named last Thursday!

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  2. oss
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    oss Somewhere Staff Member

    I really liked the old names "ununquadium and ununhexium" the new ones are ok but not special :(

    What I really want to live for is the discovery of the "islands of stability" these are the heavy elements that should be stable with lifetimes in geological time instead of nanaoseconds, I'd love us as a species to find some of those things, they are not natural they have to be made so they might have some very special properties.

    Too late at night to go into in detail as I'm just about to leave the pub :)
  3. Kuya
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    Kuya The Geeky One Staff Member

    Chicken.... :D (Trying a Marty Mcfly on you)

    Oss gets home and spends the next seven hours writing an essay.. :wave:
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    oss Somewhere Staff Member

    Na I'll just get one that someone else prepared earlier Islands of Stability

    Life's too short these days :D

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