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?
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.
Ping
It is NOT!
A document was leaked to the public last weekend.
Actually it reveals nothing that we didnt 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."
Governmentium...
Thought it would be another “governmentium” repost.
They accelerate zinc into lead, and (quite understandably the atomic structure is momentarily disturbed).
But to give it a name (Ununbrium)?
From the article, the product exists for..." only tiny fractions of a second and then decay radioactively into other elements."
What other elements? Zinc and lead?
Horsey Hockey, ed... I was drinking Bloody Bulls made from a superheavy chemical element numbered 113 just last night--
Governmentium?
Tedkennedium
Now Tom Lehrer has to add another verse to his song!
Last time I looked there were 104 and 103 was a placeholder. Why didn’t I get the memos on 105-111? Did 103 ever make it to the big league?