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115, the Newest Element on the Periodic Table
- lhl 13y agoWished the Swedish scientists played more video games. Elerium is a way cooler name than Ununpentium.
- zw123456 13y agoUnunpentium means 115.
- chm 13y agoThe name will be decided by an international vote. Ununpentium just means "115th element". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic_element_name http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic_element_name
- chii 13y agoanything committee driven is bound to be uncreative imho...
- mkuhn 13y agoSo it probably will be Colbertium. See e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert#COLBERT_Treadmill http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert#COLBERT_Treadmi...
- csmatt 13y agoThat would be terrible. It's one thing to name as fleeting as a treadmill after someone like Colbert, but I cringe at the thought of future science teachers in 2025 having to explain how an element is named after an entertainer they've never heard of.
- deafbybeheading 13y agoreference: http://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Elerium-115 http://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Elerium-115
- PBxdId7wFr 13y agoThx bro. That was a grreat read.
- mattsfrey 13y agoLol yeah, this story popped right out at me because I spent so much time as an Area 51 / X-Files fiend when I was a kid. Tons of literature about "insiders" describing ununpentium as being the key to powering anti-grav and other alien technologies etc. Kind of funny to see this story now. Look up Bob Lazar for more info
- knob 13y agoHell yeah!! Bob Lazar! Lets call 115 Lazarium... or maybe Ununpentium itself!
- frobozz 13y agoAll of the elements >=104 started off with a similar temporary systematic name until a final name was chosen. It may well end up being called Elerium.
- coldcode 13y agoIt needs a nice name. Hacknium.
- aegiso 13y agoSadly, to the general public, hacknium sounds a lot like rapeium.
- yeukhon 13y agoAny benefit for expanding the periodic table given these are "man-made" (which I believe could exist elsewhere in the universe...)?
- dnautics 13y agopossible benefits as an energy storage medium once you get to the island of stability.
- Elv13 13y agoOne that take several order of magnitude more energy to create that it can store? I am in!
- Zikes 13y agoThe same could easily be said of the battery in your phone, your car, and your laptop. The difference is that energy can be replenished easily, it's storage that's always been the hitch.
- dnautics 13y agoyeah by 'possible' I mean 'it would be a stretch, but it's not impossible'. You don't know that there might be a really efficient nucleosynthesis of these guys that we haven't found yet. Plus, there are places where energy is really abundant but hard to capture and store, like, really close to the sun.
- mistercow 13y agoWell there are several reasons, but this is the coolest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability Basically, current theory suggests that once they get to 120 protons or so, they'll start finding stable isotopes again (ones that don't decay for minutes or more). A handle on a door affords pulling, and a hypothesis affords testing, and all that. Edit: I should add that 115 might actually be within the island, but you'd need far more neutrons, which is currently not feasible.
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- 5555624 13y agoThe accompanying graphic of the Periodic Table has several errors: Lithium (Li) has an atomic number of 3, Protactinium (Pa) has an atomic number of 91, Lawrencium (at least they have Lr and not Lw) has an atomic number 103.
- eksith 13y agoI thought I didn't have enough coffee! I had a double take at that too: H(1), He(2), Li(2), Be(4). Didn't even notice the other errors until you pointed them out.
- 6ren 13y agoOh, so they name those not yet discovered/synthesised by their number, as Ununtrium (113), Ununpentium (115), Ununseptium (117), Ununoctium (118). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table#Layout http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table#Layout
- stinos 13y agoI wish more articles were written like this: start reading, ask yourself x questions, only to see them answered while you keep reading, in a nice concise way, no more no less.