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Element 118 Dropped from Periodic Table!
Scientific American ^
| July 17, 2002
| Zeeya Merali
Posted on 07/30/2002 6:04:17 PM PDT by vannrox
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WOW.
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posted on
07/30/2002 6:04:17 PM PDT
by
vannrox
To: vannrox
Element 118 Dropped from Periodic Table! Did it bounce when it hit??
To: vannrox
Element 118 Dropped from Periodic Table! Out for the season or just the next few games?
To: vannrox
How long does it have to be stable in order to count?
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posted on
07/30/2002 6:07:27 PM PDT
by
Eagle Eye
To: vannrox; Physicist
Let's get an expert in here.
Take a bow Physicist, and then please explain this to us.
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posted on
07/30/2002 6:08:38 PM PDT
by
LibKill
To: vannrox
Damn!, and I was going to put a bundle on #118.
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posted on
07/30/2002 6:10:05 PM PDT
by
TJFLSTRAT
To: vannrox
they did, however, manage to get Cold Fusion working, and discovered that the Noble Gases were in fact, descended from non-royalty ...
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posted on
07/30/2002 6:14:28 PM PDT
by
Bobby777
To: vannrox
This is definitely a mistake, since most of it can be easily found in the pants of all Republican Senators and many Republican house members.
They continue to look in the wrong place.
The scientists need to introduce the likes of Trent Lott to the Berkeley Gas-filled Separator (BGS).
His pathetic ass is loaded with at least Element 118.
It is so obvious, even to the uninitiated that there is a "hidden reason" for this Senate toad to constipatedly drag his butt on anything of consequence...
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posted on
07/30/2002 6:16:43 PM PDT
by
Vidalia
To: vannrox
Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) have formally retracted their claims for the discovery of the most massive chemical elementThe news here is not the withdrawal of the claim, but rather the fact that such a basic scheme (falsifying data) was apparently so casually investigated/verified by one of our most prestigious labs.
To: vannrox
Whoa! That's heavy, man.
To: vannrox
What did they name it? Nadlericium?
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posted on
07/30/2002 6:19:57 PM PDT
by
AK2KX
To: vannrox
![](http://www.newspringfield.com/pictures/townsppl/frinkyfrontview.gif)
Glavin!
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posted on
07/30/2002 6:20:23 PM PDT
by
handk
To: vannrox
![](http://www.newspringfield.com/pictures/stars/bumblebeemanstanding.gif)
Ay-yi-yi!
[OK, I'll quit...]
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posted on
07/30/2002 6:22:11 PM PDT
by
handk
To: vannrox
Does that mean the I have to quit making it in my kitchen and feeding it to my kids?
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posted on
07/30/2002 6:23:25 PM PDT
by
lawdude
To: vannrox
The Dems have just come out and to say that nothing will be cut and we will now tax to support #118. Also five more will be put on and more tax dollars must be raised.
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posted on
07/30/2002 6:28:33 PM PDT
by
bmwcyle
To: vannrox
The synthesis of the "superheavy" element 118,...Woops, somebody's thumb on the scale?
Subatomic Hemorrhtonic Steroids! Hemorrhoids!
To: LibKill
Take a bow Physicist, and then please explain this to us.Apparently one of the researchers modified some of the data on the sly. He got his collaborators to fall for it, and they published it.
Had I been tricked by a collaborator into publishing a paper with my name on it that was based on fraudulent data, I would have beaten him to within a micron of his life. I would much rather be defrauded of every dollar I ever earned.
To: Physicist
Had I been tricked by a collaborator into publishing a paper with my name on it that was based on fraudulent data, I would have beaten him to within a micron of his life. I would much rather be defrauded of every dollar I ever earned. I can understand that. I work for scientists and nothing is more important to them than their scientific integrity/credibility.
"He who steals my purse steals trash.....but he who steals my good name leaves me very poor indeed."
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posted on
07/30/2002 6:40:31 PM PDT
by
LibKill
To: vannrox; phasma proeliator
PHEW!!! Tonight I will SLEEP!
8^)
To: vannrox
The retraction, published in the current Physical Review Letters, follows failures to reproduce the reported results by the Berkeley researchers and also by scientists in Germany and Japan. After re-analysis of the original data using different software codes, the team was forced to admit that their evidence for element 118 was spurious, prompting all but one of the original papers authors to endorse the retraction. Damn!! I knew I shouldn't have thrown that sample away when I cleaned out the fridge.
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