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New Superheavy Element Discovered at Berkley Labs
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| 4-1-10
| Sciocco D. Aprile
Posted on 04/01/2010 6:31:04 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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To: AdmSmith; bvw; callisto; ckilmer; dandelion; ganeshpuri89; gobucks; KevinDavis; Las Vegas Dave; ...
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posted on
04/05/2010 5:32:44 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
To: Fido969
Poor soul suffers from little dick syndrome ... without braille, he would never be able to pee standing up.
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posted on
04/05/2010 5:37:06 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Obots, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
To: smokingfrog
Element 120 and its immediate decay product, element 121, were discovered ... 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
Something doesn't make sense here because:
1. They are talking about elements 120 and 121 being near the "island of stability", but an element with 187 protons would be element 187.
2. The heavier elements all have many more neutrons than protons
To: smokingfrog
"Oh crap..."
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posted on
04/05/2010 7:58:31 PM PDT
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reagan_fanatic
(Entitlements will do to America what drugs eventually do to addicts)
To: wideminded
They are talking about elements 120 and 121 being near the "island of stability", but an element with 187 protons would be element 187.
Mmmm. You would think that a nuclear physicist would know that. Maybe this Nokov fellow isn't who he says he is...
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04/05/2010 8:06:19 PM PDT
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smokingfrog
(Free Men will always be armed with the Truth.)
To: SunkenCiv
To: wideminded
It’s an April Fool’s joke. Jimmy Neecricket?
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04/05/2010 8:34:00 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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