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.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
“Making element 112 was 10 times harder to make than 110, says Hoffman.”
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17297-first-new-element-for-five-years-makes-periodic-table.html
and the link to the paper giving them priority (worth the time to read):
The IUPAC/IUPAP Joint Working Party (JWP) on the priority of claims to the discovery of new elements has reviewed the relevant literature pertaining to several claims. In accordance with the criteria for the discovery of elements previously established by the 1992 IUPAC/IUPAP Transfermium Working Group (TWG), and reiterated by the 1999 and 2003 IUPAC/IUPAP JWPs, it was determined that the 1996 and 2002 claims by the Hofmann et al. research collaborations
for the discovery of the element with atomic number 112 at Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) share in the fulfillment of those criteria. A synopsis of Z = 112 experiments and related efforts is presented. A subsequent report will address identification of higher-Z elements including those of odd atomic number.
http://media.iupac.org/publications/pac/asap/pdf/PAC-REP-08-03-05.pdf
This means that there is ONLY 3 ELEMENTS LEFT TO GO until we reach Element 115 !!! yay!
Interesting.
I was in Darmstadt for awhile in the Army. Beautiful little town.
Where did the "ed" come from?
For something to be funny, there has to be a element of truth.
He's got it covered:
There may be many othahs
but we have heard of them at Hahvahd
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.
LOL!
hehehe
Kennadium
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