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Key point I missed: Livermorium here is just a benchmark for the new titanium-beam process (having been discovered in 2000.) Actually using it to attempt to pro
by eichin 2y ago
Key point I missed: Livermorium here is just a benchmark for the new titanium-beam process (having been discovered in 2000.) Actually using it to attempt to produce element 120 is a future step.
- pfdietz 2y agoYes; they had to demonstrate they could form and accelerate titanium beams (made difficult by the high temperature needed to sufficiently vaporize titanium.)
- eichin 2y agoHeh, the materials science side of particle physics is all sorts of fun: accelerate the particles to 10% of the speed of light - no big deal, but actually vaporizing them in the first place...
- ForOldHack 2y agoPita is relative. Getting Ti to oxidize? Easy - getting it got enough to strip the oxigen off? Very hard, and about 1000x harder than just oxidize, getting it into a pure plasma? Now this is where it just gets insane. Then beyond insane is accelerating individual atoms. ( Pretty much they just issue you a PhD. ) Then get it to .1c speed? Pretty much everyone you will talk to on a daily basis either has a Noble, or is goimg to get one, in a place where the building is named after one laureat, the parking lot is named for another, the room another, and the drinking fountain another. I have stood there, and it's pretty intimidating. A handful of the very top top people in the world. I guess it could be fun for some...I would use the verb... Plasmatize. The discovery of Fluorine...elemental, killed 8 and rendered 3 disabled. I have been following this for 40 years. Congratulations on the attempt.
- qwezxcrty 2y agoNot sure that is actually the difficult part. For these low vapor pressure elements one can use a sputtering ion source...