Posted on 04/01/2010 6:31:04 PM PDT by smokingfrog
BERKELEY, CA Discovery of two new "superheavy" elements has been announced by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Element 120 and its immediate decay product, element 121, were discovered at Berkeley Lab's 88-Inch Cyclotron by bombarding targets of lead with an intense beam of high-energy krypton ions. Although both new elements almost instantly decay into other elements, the sequence of decay events is consistent with theories that have long predicted an "island of stability" for nuclei with approximately 187 protons and 199 neutrons.
"We jumped over a sea of instability onto an island of stability that theories have been predicting since the 1970s," said nuclear physicist Victor Nokof who was first author of a paper that has been submitted to Physical Review Letters.
Said Don Otoberich, a nuclear chemist who led the discovery team, "We were able to produce these superheavies using a reaction that, until a few months ago, we had not considered using. However, theoretician Jimmy Neecriket (a visiting Fulbright scholar from the Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies in Poland) calculated that this reaction should have particularly favorable production rates. Our unexpected success in producing these superheavy elements opens up a whole world of possibilities using similar reactions: new elements and isotopes, tests of nuclear stability and mass models, and a new understanding of nuclear reactions for the production of heavy elements."
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Since it has no electron, "Obamozium" is inert. However, it can be detected chemically, as it impedes every reaction it comes in contact with. According to researchers, a minute amount of "Obamozium", added to one reaction, caused it to take four days to complete. Without the Administratium, the reaction ordinarily occurred in less than one second.
"Obamozium" has a normal half-life of approximately three years, at which time it does not actually decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which assistant neutrons, vice neutrons and assistant vice neutrons exchange places. Studies seem to show the atomic number actually increasing after each reorganization.
Research indicates that "Obamozium" occurs naturally in the atmosphere. It tends to concentrate in certain locations such as government agencies, large corporations and universities. It can usually be found in the newest, best-appointed and best- maintained buildings.
Scientists warn that "Obamozium" is known to be toxic, and recommend plenty of fluids and bed rest after even low levels of exposure.
Lead = Lawsuit = why bother
It never gets old.
Thanks for the laugh.
Ah, crapium.
It also has the same stench as democromium.
But not to worry... our experience with democromium is that
the stench cannot get strong enough that users will not wish
it in a ‘charge’ arrangement. The greatest misconception about
those elements is that they give out more energy than they take
in.
Mr. Creosote (Just one more wafer-thin mint)
Obamozium,known to be toxic, is the causative agent of Husseinassism a condition that scientist are hoping to have a cure for in 2012.
Berkley Labs??
They’re always the runner-up to Berkeley Labs. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride.
Is obamozium harmful to humans? What I’m really wondering is if it is Reidioactive, you know, like pellosium.
Too dense to be of any use.
Two atoms walk out of a bar..
One says “I think I lost an electron in there”
the other says “Are you sure?”
He says “I’m POSITIVE!”
I think that as a super heavy element it should be named Teddyum or Kennedyum after Ted Kennedy.
Jimmy Neecriket is a first cousin of Joey Bagadonuts and I.M.Lyon.
OBAMOZIUM has nor czarinos?
I was sure it would have at least a hundred.
Obamozium is harmful to all living things, as is its’ half-life element hopeychangeyium.
Jiminy Cricket and Victor Knockoff collaborated on this April 1 project?
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