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That's just a temporary name (un-bi-nil-ium, meaning one-two-zero-ium) and will be assigned a new name once it's actually discovered and verified.
by pxndxx 2y ago
That's just a temporary name (un-bi-nil-ium, meaning one-two-zero-ium) and will be assigned a new name once it's actually discovered and verified.
- n4r9 2y agoThe highest atomic number of any synthesised element appears to be Oganesson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oganesson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oganesson . Only 5 atoms have ever been synthesised. It's speculated to be a solid at room temperature despite belonging to the "noble gas" family. Chemistry is fascinating.
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- hoseja 2y agoAnd it closes the periodic table so nicely. We really shouldn't be trying to go any further until and if they can predict the island of stability with high confidence.
- kamarg 2y ago> We really shouldn't be trying to go any further until and if they can predict the island of stability with high confidence. I don't know much about chemistry since I haven't done anything with it in the last 20ish years. What need is there to be able to accurately predict it before attempting to synthesize it?
- ufmace 2y agoThe way this stuff seems to work, it doesn't make sense to go theory-first. We can spin up a bazillion theories about it, with no clue which if any are anywhere near true. We've got to just try it, gather experimental data, and see if we can build any more solidly-backed theories around that data.
- somenameforme 2y agoI think that's the way science pretty much always goes. For the most clear example look at the unbelievable mountain of information we have on the distant cosmos. Yet it all assumes the homogeneity of physics in the universe. There's no real reason to believe this is true outside our sample of 1, but without believing this it would be basically impossible to study the cosmos, because we'd have no way to assess differing physics in distant locations, at least not until we are able to reach those locations and carry out experiments. Drugs are also the same with many, if not the majority of drugs having come from things that were initially intended to treat something else, only to find out what you created has stronger effects elsewhere. The most obvious and amusing one being that Viagra was meant to be a heart medicine. It turned out to have little effect on heart disease, but had a rather pronounced side effect in half the participants!
- jcranmer 2y agoThe island of stability should occur (indeed, does appear to occur, although we're still neutron-poor) in the elements of the low 110s.
- WorldMaker 2y agoThey thought they could predict it with high confidence a couple decades ago and then they learned more and confidence lowered again. That's kind of the nature of science, use what you know to find out what you don't know, and keep adjusting your models as you go. That's also something of the paradox at work at something like this: you sometimes can't have models that strongly predict interesting or "good" outcomes (such as the "island of stability") without a lot more data from experiments and maybe you aren't running the right experiments because you don't have the right model, but you won't have the right model until you run more experiments.
- mensetmanusman 2y agoScientific textbook publishers are salivating at a new element though
- Woshiwuja 2y agoChemistry is weird af. How does sodium (lethal) + clorine (lethal) = salt (yummy)
- sesm 2y agoBecause it's Cl- ions in salt vs Cl2 in gas.
- o11c 2y agoThat's literally the same as asking "how come hydrogen (flammable) + oxygen (enhances fire) = water (does not burn)?", but we probably have a better mental grasp of how water works.
- gruturo 2y agoOversimplifying, but you can explain that as "Because water is... the "ash" you get after burning hydrogen and oxygen."
- stergios 2y agoI think the intent is that water is a byproduct of combustion.
- withinboredom 2y agoI’m pretty sure the intent was that water is a byproduct of combustion.
- dexwiz 2y agoIt’s all about electrochemical potential. Adding or removing electrons from the outer shell of an atom involves a fair amount of energy, either being released or stored. Depending on the atom, they either want their shell filled or emptied. Noble gases have the same number of protons as a filled shell, so they are very stable. Why electron shells exist is a whole other matter. Water is kind of like ash. Technically full combustion of any hydrocarbon outputs CO2 and Water. Since water isn’t a greenhouse gas it’s not mentioned when discussing combustion usually.
- smcin 2y ago"Formerly known as Ununoctium (Uuo)"
- NoMoreNicksLeft 2y agoI propose we call it onetwentium. We might just skip to element 130 though, because onetwentiwunium is awkward to both spell and pronounce.