New element to be added to periodic table (CBC)

[Drew Wilson]

Scientists are about to add a new, super-heavy element to the periodic table.

"The new element is approximately 277 times heavier than hydrogen, making it the heaviest element in the periodic table," the German scientists who produced the element said in a statement on Wednesday.

The new element is massive and unstable — it can only exist for fractions of a second before splitting up in radioactive decay. It will occupy spot 112 on the periodic table. Elements are assigned numbers on the table based on how many protons they have.

The team of German researchers at the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research produced the element for the first time a decade ago. The experiment that created it is very hard to duplicate, so it took years for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) to independently verify its existence.

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:surprised: Ooo. A new element.

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...now what?

[1cooldude]

when I started there were only 103 known elements. DAMN!:240:

[YWD67]

Two days ago I reported that several new gases were possibly being added.
One being called Pootonium. A noxious and highly corrosive gas that can peel five layers of paint off a wall and clear a room of any life form in less the five seconds.

[fleecy]

The new element is massive and unstable — it can only exist for fractions of a second before splitting up in radioactive decay.

wow, that does sound like pootonium! :shocked:

[Drew Wilson]

No worries, when the giant atom smasher creates an atom that destroys half the planet, all of mans screw ups won't matter much afterwards. o.O

[fleecy]

yup, pretty much null and void after that point....

[Excrement_Cranium]

No worries, when the giant atom smasher creates an atom that destroys half the planet, all of mans screw ups won't matter much afterwards. o.O

It's pretty much the same story with a lot of the "elements" at the high end of the table.

Most of them have only been observed under "simulated" conditions. The idea is that these atoms could exist under conditions within stars.

[Mels_Smileys45]

The new element Spam is long over due being added to the table! :boggled:

[mfgbypooter]

Isn't this a monthly event?

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[sudilav]

You'll probably see more elements produced in the next few years. They're now going to start using lasers which fire beams in specific directions towards a specific point, to produce the heat and pressures equivalent to Gas Giants. So i think they'll be using that to observe atoms and possibly create new ones if ones undiscovered do exist in gas giants.

[fleecy]

if you look at the current table, it looks like it's anticipated that more elements are in the works. there are designated spots for those as yet unnamed.

[TFoS_Fan]

Tom Lehrer must be bloody annoyed...

Though to quote a line "These are the only ones to which news has come Harvard, but there may be many others that haven't been discovered."

[mfgbypooter]

It will never be finished until they add the taco.

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[YWD67]

I see they delayed the start up of the Europian super collider till the fal.
Some have voiced concerns that if they lose control of it a mini black hole will be created and the planet will be sucked in to. I realy don't see that happing, but when you start messing with the smaller god particles who knows.

If they are worried about losing control the best thing they can do is keep the french from running the program.

Christ they lose everything from wars to bicycle races.

Many don't know this but ZP has it's own gas giant, it's name is Poot.

[sudilav]

The only thing the french can host, is an invasion. and ffs, i'm going to live there for 5 weeks on july 27th. It is physically impossible, even if they created a mini black hole, it would be mini, it has only the energy provided by the two particles which collided. it is impossible for it to start sucking stuff in, the most likely thing is that they'd get a flash of energy, assumably from sub-space (i'm a heim theorist personally).

EDIT: flash of energy is wrong :P. i mean, drop of energy output to the energy input.