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[quote]TWO new elements are being added to the periodic table after they were discovered through a collaboration between US and Russian scientists, a top US chemistry expert said on Friday.
The elements are the first to be added since copernicium in 2009. They have not yet been named, but are known for now as 114 and 116.
'Over the past 250 years, there have been basically 100 new elements discovered,' said Prof Paul Karol, a chemistry professor at Carnegie Mellon University and chair of the committee that recommended the additions. 'But it is becoming more and more difficult to do this so when a new element is discovered, it's actually pretty exciting.'
The pair were found through atom-smasher experiments called cross-bombardments, according to research published by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. The experiments, hosted at the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia and in cooperation with a US team based at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, smashed calcium together with plutonium to make 114, and calcium with curium for 116.
'So they smash those two together and if they fuse, if they stick, you have then made something that is the sum of the two pieces and that is where the new elements come from,' Prof Karol told AFP. The new elements were first detected in 2004 and 2006, but it took years to confirm them.
Now the naming process gets under way, which could takes weeks or months. 'They have named things after geographic places, sometimes people, Greek gods,' said Prof Karol, noting that the only restriction is that any name must end in -ium.[/quote]
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Well shit now my table of the elements shirt will be outdated.
:science:
They should think of a creative way to get names for them.
Why must it end in "ium"?
Too bad these new elements decay too quickly to have any practical use.
[QUOTE=Edgar Allan Poe;30384213]Too bad these new elements decay too quickly to have any practical use.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, they're kind of pointless but get recognized for existing for 1/8th of a second.
Carbonium. Goldium. Siverium. Hydrogenium. Phosphorium. Chlorinium. Nitrogenium.
Those sound cooler. But much less practical.
fuck gotta update my periodic table
AGAIN
Well that are radioactive, so we don't have much use for them.
[QUOTE=crackberry;30384663]Well that are radioactive, so we don't have much use for them.[/QUOTE]
Yup, articificially made.
Some more in-depth information:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24-pj9uG_8g[/media]
[QUOTE=Niteshifter;30385969]Some more in-depth information:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24-pj9uG_8g[/media][/QUOTE]
Why is he so shaky.
Periodictable.exe "A new update was downloaded and installed, please restart your computer"
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;30386020]Why is he so shaky.[/QUOTE]
I doubt he has parkinsons, so it's probably an [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_tremor]Essential tremor[/url]. I've got it as well and don't take medication for it since I've learned to live with it which could be what he's done as well.
[QUOTE=PunchedInFac;30384588]Carbonium. [b]Goldium. Siverium.[/b] Hydrogenium. Phosphorium. Chlorinium. Nitrogenium.
Those sound cooler. But much less practical.[/QUOTE]
Gold and Silver aren't the "scientific" names. Aurum and Argentum are
[QUOTE=PunchedInFac;30384588]Carbonium. Goldium. Siverium. Hydrogenium. Phosphorium. Chlorinium. Nitrogenium.
Those sound cooler. But much less practical.[/QUOTE]
There's no name change to have all elements end in -ium. Certain elements are like this because of a grandfather clause set in by IUPAC.
[QUOTE=Niteshifter;30386268]There's no name change to have all elements end in -ium. Certain elements are like this because of a grandfather clause set in by IUPAC.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I know. Im just hypothesizing if all elements suddenly fell prey to that clause.
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;30386112]Gold and Silver aren't the "scientific" names. Aurum and Argentum are[/QUOTE]
Does scientific = latin?
[QUOTE=Lambeth;30383837]Well shit now my table of the elements shirt will be outdated.[/QUOTE]
Just pass it off as retro.
[QUOTE=Biotoxsin;30386966]Does scientific = latin?[/QUOTE]
In many cases, yes.
[QUOTE=Biotoxsin;30386966]Does scientific = latin?[/QUOTE]
For hundreds of years, latin was the language of science. Kinda sucks because even after 6 years of latin I'm still not able to read works by Newton...
I expected Element99 :v:
[quote]the only restriction is that any name must end in -ium[/quote]
facepunchium
[editline]11th June 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=ChristopherB;30384084]Why must it end in "ium"?[/QUOTE]
because you can sound more intellectual when saying it.
Name one Australium and make kickass wrenches out of it.
[QUOTE=PunchedInFac;30384588]Carbonium. Goldium. Siverium. Hydrogenium. Phosphorium. Chlorinium. Nitrogenium.
Those sound cooler. But much less practical.[/QUOTE]
They sound like stuff you'd mine out of asteriods in EVE or something... :colbert:
[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;30388943]They sound like stuff you'd mine out of asteriods in EVE or something... :colbert:[/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://wiki.eveonline.com/wikiEN/images_icons/iconID_232_grey.jpg[/IMG]
Sup.
I want Facepunchium
:smith:
Russium
Americium
The nether Landium....s?
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