Liverwurstium...............
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbinilium
article
Towards the Discovery of New Elements: Production of Livermorium (Z=116) with 50Ti
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.16079
Next: Odonnellium (formed by bombarding fat cells with Oreo particles)
Liverwurstium...............
The Ti beam is from a cyclotron, not mechanical.
Americium/Californium/Livermorium. They’re working toward cooking Lawrence Lab’s mailing address into the periodic table. I suggest the street name for this one.
If you have to synthesize it, how is it an element? I always thought of elements as naturally occurring.
Damn these people. Now I have to order a new periodic table!
Upsidazium (Rocky and Bullwinkle reference)
“The heaviest element that has been made so far is oganesson, element 118, . . .”
Oganesson actually seems pretty cool - although it’s in the inert gas family, it’s predicted to be a very reactive metal (so much for chemical periodicity!). Of course that supposition is purely theoretical, as they’ve only made 5 atoms of the stuff, and it’s unlikely anybody is going to make enough to do any chemistry on anyway. Plus it doesn’t stick around long (half-life is a fraction of a second, depending on the isotope).
And it lasted for 6 femtoseconds before breaking apart . . .
j/k
I think
My first thought went to Bob Lazar and his claims of alien anti-gravity technology, including the then unknown “element-115”, that was used in these “spaceships”.
The same people who denied the existence of spaceships and element-115 also denied the existence of Area 51.
Since then, the US government admitted Area 51 exists and, in 2003, element-115 was synthesized by US and Russian scientists.
Yawnium...
I wonder why they bother since these heavy elements break down so quickly.
There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium
And gold protactinium and indium and gallium
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium
There’s yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium
There’s holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium
And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium
And lead, praseodymium and platinum, plutonium
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium
There’s sulfur, californium and fermium, berkelium
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin and sodium
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard
And there may be many others, but they haven’t been discovered!
...And there may be many others but they haven’t been discovahed.
re: the articles pictures
That’s absolutely the worst machine I’ve ever seen. Cables dangling everywhere, nothing routed or leveled. The “team leader” is tatted up, their control room is a disaster, look at the building it’s in, old cinderblocks & wood beams.
I hope they electrocute themselves.