The Periodic Table Just Got Wilder: Scientists Unveil the Secrets of the Heaviest Element Ever – Moscovium

Scitech Daily ^ | November 21, 2024 | GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

Still waiting for unobtainabian.

[Bob434]

I thought Stacyabrium was the heaviest ever?

[tired&retired]

“In 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev created the framework that became the modern periodic table.”

[PIF]

When I first started studying chemistry, they had just discovered the Table ...

[Red Badger]

We used boulders for desks and wrote in the sand..............

[Doctor Congo]

That’s heavy stuff, man.

[Chewbarkah]

“Governmentium has a normal half-life of three years; it does not decay...”

Recent observations suggest that a leading neutron can indeed decay into a base moron. Strong evidence, however, suggests this particle was a moron from the moment of its creation, though further decay is incontrovertible.

[Verginius Rufus]

I’m going to make a wild guess and say that nihonium is named in honor of Japan.

[Red Badger]

Correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihonium#History

[PIF]

We used boulders for desks and wrote in the sand.

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Then there was an earthquake, accompanied by high winds, and all all the work went for nothing.

[Migraine]

I have theoretically distilled a rare bar of luckydaysium. I’ll gladly theoretically exchange it for a bar of real gold.

[Nateman]

One of the reasons Mercury is liquid at room temperature is because of relativistic effects . Hafnium and Zirconium are very similar chemically because relativistic effects in Hafnium shrink its size to nearly that of Zirconium.