2 New Elements are being added to the Periodic Table

[yasemin kimyacioglu]

http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/05/new-periodic-table-elements-finally-get-names-will-probably-wan/

How often does this happen? I think an Element Party is called for. Dress up as your favorite element! 

[Tim Sennott]

Haha I am down! Think it might have to be a skype party tho, considering how far-flung some of our constituents are!

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 2:31 PM, yasemin kimyacioglu <yase...@gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/05/new-periodic-table-elements-finally-get-names-will-probably-wan/

How often does this happen? I think an Element Party is called for. Dress up as your favorite element! 

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[yasemin kimyacioglu]

Aa skype party would be very 21st century of us. I wonder if it's ever been done. 

[James DeMuth]

Just gotta give a shout out to my livermoronium, that got named incredibly fast! That was only discovered in the past year! FaceTime party?

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[garrett fitzgerald]

James, 

That article said livermore collaborated back in 2000 on the discovery of the element, what gives.  Anyway what can you tell me about livermorium?  Enjoy the party. 

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[James DeMuth]

Yes, you are correct... but Livermore also collaborated to discover element 117, which has yet to be named discovered in 2010, so I just mixed up 116 with 117, they all had to many Uu's in their names before they got their official ones... Well I guess 117 is coming down the pipeline, and 113, 115, 118...:

This was the article:

Livermore scientists in conjunction with a team of researchers from Russia, a Department of Energy national laboratory and two universities, have discovered the newest superheavy element, element 117. 

The team included scientists from the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research (Dubna, Russia), the Research Institute for Advanced Reactors (Dimitrovgrad), Lawrence Livermore, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Vanderbilt University and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 
This discovery brings the total to six new elements discovered by the Dubna-Livermore team (113, 114, 115, 116, 117, and 118, the heaviest element to date).  
 
The team established the existence of element 117 from decay patterns observed following the bombardment of a radioactive berkelium target with calcium ions at the JINR U400 cyclotron in Dubna.  The experiment depended on the availability of special detection facilities and dedicated accelerator time at Dubna, unique isotope production and separation facilities at Oak Ridge, and distinctive nuclear data analysis capabilities at Livermore. 


-James

[James DeMuth]

You guys should be able to see this...

https://newsline.llnl.gov/_rev02/articles/2010/apr/04.09.10-element.php

-James

[marc fawzi]

just like having new planets but potentially more useful... anyone has a clue regarding the potential scientific/engineering applications of these new elements...?

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[James DeMuth]

None as of yet, they are unstable, but have relatively long halflives, although probably not long enough to do anything with:

halflife:

113:1min

114:2.8s

115:1s

116:120ms

117:50ms

118:5ms

ms-1min is like eternity on the atomic timescale though, so I wouldn't put it past scientists to create these elements, and use them to do things in the brief period that they exist... but unless it's obvious, the amount of research to get anything useful from them would probably be enormous...

One step closer to the stable island!

-James

[marc fawzi]

if the creation process is to become inexpensive one day (it probably takes a multi-billion dollar accelerator or whatever) then they don't even have to be stable as they may then be created in a continuous fashion =)  stability is so old school