Beerball Posted June 8, 2016 Posted June 8, 2016 http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/8/11886636/new-elements-named-periodic-table
BringBackFergy Posted June 8, 2016 Posted June 8, 2016 Why not shorten one of the proposed names...like Nohanissimo...to "Idiot"?
DC Tom Posted June 9, 2016 Posted June 9, 2016 Until they name a Feynmenium and Gellmannium, I'm boycotting the periodic table. Back to earth, air, fire, and water for me...
BuffaloBill Posted June 9, 2016 Posted June 9, 2016 Back to earth, air, fire, water and idiots for me... Fixed
Saxum Posted June 9, 2016 Posted June 9, 2016 Names should not be longer than the artificial elements last.
DC Tom Posted June 9, 2016 Posted June 9, 2016 Fixed Idiots aren't an element. Idiocy is a basic force, however.
PromoTheRobot Posted June 9, 2016 Posted June 9, 2016 Idiots aren't an element. Idiocy is a basic force, however. Like entropy. Things turning into crap is a law of nature.
unbillievable Posted June 10, 2016 Posted June 10, 2016 It's not news worthy until they discover Adamantium and Vibranium.
ExiledInIllinois Posted June 10, 2016 Posted June 10, 2016 what happened to numbers 114 and 116???? I am guessing they weren't synthesized yet? Nothing in life is purely sequential. Ain't a chemist, but I stayed in a Holiday Inn Express. I wonder if this like a 3 or 5, etc... Cylinder internal combustion engine thing? They had ones, twos, then 4, 6, etc... What I am saying... Maybe it is just too complicated to nail the 114 and 116 down just yet? Should I demand a refund from Holiday Inn?
DC Tom Posted June 10, 2016 Posted June 10, 2016 what happened to numbers 114 and 116???? They're already named.
ExiledInIllinois Posted June 10, 2016 Posted June 10, 2016 They're already named. I am enquiring about that refund as we speak.
DC Tom Posted June 10, 2016 Posted June 10, 2016 I am enquiring about that refund as we speak. You're not entirely wrong...they're already named because they were easier to identify. There's a whole group of elements that were created around the same time (roughly, 111 to 118). But "creating" and "discovering" are two different things...you have to collect the evidence that you created them, which involves observation of decay products and working backwards to prove that the energies of the decay products could only come from. Then you write up the paper and have it published. Then it's "discovered." (That's something people don't understand about "discovery" - it's sharing it with others that counts. The Vikings and most likely Chinese got to America before Columbus...but Columbus discovered America because he was the first to come back and say "You're not gonna believe this ****...") And it's really difficult, too - one of these elements, they managed to create three atoms of it. Maybe four. They're not sure.
Gugny Posted June 10, 2016 Posted June 10, 2016 Until they name a Feynmenium and Gellmannium, I'm boycotting the periodic table. Back to earth, air, fire, and water for me... Do you remember dancing in September?
ExiledInIllinois Posted June 10, 2016 Posted June 10, 2016 Do you remember dancing in September? No. But I do remember December, the 21st to be exact. Love was changing the minds of pretenders.
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