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To: nickcarraway

Not really, all are man made, existing for milliseconds at best and never found naturally. At this rate there will be a never ending glossary of new elements, each named after the scientist having the means to create it from a grant at the taxpayer trough. Nothing new here......


10 posted on 06/09/2016 9:57:40 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Fungi

It is such a scam. They bring no value to world.


12 posted on 06/09/2016 10:01:14 PM PDT by proust (Trump/Sessions 2016!)
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To: Fungi

Plutonium isn’t naturally occurring either. The difference between Boron and Carbon is a single proton, but the chemical properties are vast.

For now, these elements may only exist for milliseconds.

Who knows? Combine them in the right way and they may stick around.

It may also melt your face off, but don’t count science out because the process is messy. JJ Thompson discovered the electron. He also thought that because atoms are stable that electrons and protons existed in a sort of plum pudding, or a muffin-like thing where electrons and protons where sort of embedded together.

Wrong as hell on that account, but discovering the electron is why we love him.

Before Einstein proposed it, the idea of a bunch of north magnets all hanging out together closely packed together in the nucleus of an atom was absurd. That’s exactly what protons are, and what they do - happy to live very tightly packed in the nucleus. At the same time, electons (south magnets if you will) can only go two to an orbital.

One of these days all of this mishagas may lead to the graviton.


30 posted on 06/10/2016 7:19:21 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: Fungi

Federalgrantium


38 posted on 06/12/2016 7:18:46 AM PDT by monkeyshine
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