Posted on 06/11/2009 1:59:57 PM PDT by edpc
BERLIN (Reuters) – A new, superheavy chemical element numbered 112 will soon be officially included in the periodic table, German researchers said.
A team in the southwest German city of Darmstadt first produced 112 in 1996 by firing charged zinc atoms through a 120-meter-long particle accelerator to hit a lead target.
"The new element is approximately 277 times heavier than hydrogen, making it the heaviest element in the periodic table," the scientists at the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research said in a statement late on Wednesday.
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Oprah off her diet again?
IBTHTP
Great, now I have to have my periodic table tattoo redone.
How soon can we cast bullets and sinkers out of it?
MO?
A team in the southwest German city of Darmstadt first produced 112 in 1996 by firing charged zinc atoms through a 120-meter-long particle accelerator to hit a lead target.
It’s the element that zincs to the bottom of the periodic table?
LMAO!
I was thinking the exact same thing!
150 grain bullets for a 223?
I once accidentally dropped a made of that stuff on my foot!
Cant remember what it is called. Those superheavy elements have lots of “U”s and “N”s in the names, and like many of its cousins near the bottom of the chart it has a short half-life, milliseconds to seconds.
Just another step towards the “Island of Stability”starting at 114.
Can’t wait.
“LMAO!
I was thinking the exact same thing!
150 grain bullets for a 223?”
(grin) Yes, I’m running out of depleted uranium.
LOL!!!!
Nice!
Ping
It is NOT!
A document was leaked to the public last weekend.
Actually it reveals nothing that we didn’t already suspect. But it does show that besides arsenic, lead, mercury, radon, strontium and plutonium, one more extremely deadly and pervasive element is known to exist.
This startling new discovery has been tentatively named Governmentium (Gv) but kept top secret for 50 years. The new element has no protons or electrons, thus having an atomic number of 0. It does, however, have 1 neutron, 125 deputy neutrons, 75 supervisory neutrons, and 111 team leader neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.
These 312 particles are held together by a force called morons, that are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. Since it has no electrons, Governmentium is inert. However, it can be detected as it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact.
According to the discoverers, a minute amount of Governmentium causes one reaction to take over four days to complete when it would normally take less than a second. Governmentium has a normal half-life of approximately three years. It does not decay but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the deputy neutrons, supervisory neutrons, and team leader neutrons exchange places. In fact, Governmentium mass will actually increase over time, since, with each reorganization, some of the morons inevitably become neutrons, forming new isodopes.
This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to speculate that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as the "Critical Morass."
Monica Lewinsky? I am fairly certain the poster was referring to Michelle Obama.
Governmentium...
Might make some nifty goose and turkey loads for a shotgun too.
I was way off...I think I was looking at another thread. OY..it’s been a very bad day!!!
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