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To: BenLurkin

Fabricated or observed? I guess for it to be on the table, it has to be in a natural, non-manmade state.


28 posted on 01/04/2016 11:31:16 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: dhs12345

The four new elements, all of which are synthetic, were discovered by slamming lighter nuclei into each other and tracking the following decay of the radioactive superheavy elements.

Like other superheavy elements that populate the end of the periodic table, they only exist for fractions of a second before decaying into other elements.


32 posted on 01/04/2016 11:33:21 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: dhs12345

These are manmade, if I understand correctly.


35 posted on 01/04/2016 11:34:21 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: dhs12345
Nope. Not true.

Most of the transuranium elements occur "naturally," (a definition that only makes sense if we exclude humans from nature, which is a nonsensical idea) but their half-lives are so short that beyond plutonium they're very rarely (or never) observed outside of nuclear reactors or accelerators.

All that is necessary for an element to go into the chart is that it exist long enough to be reliably observed. For UUO, (118) the half life is believed to be <1 millisecond.

43 posted on 01/04/2016 11:53:11 AM PST by FredZarguna (Deathblow: "Not because of who you are, but because of different reasons altogether.")
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