But the atomsmiths still have haven't found the legendary "Island Of Stability"
Now here's where it gets
Wiki has a page on Ununseptium, the placeholder name for the new element. It now remains to be properly named. Suggestions? The Russians, Americans, and Germans already have elements named after their respective nations: Ruthenium, Americium, and Germanium. If the Russians and Germans end up slugging it out for priority, perhaps it could be called Stalingradium. Or how about Putinium or Merkelium? How about Obamium?
*ducks*
h/t Lem
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Unobtanium... duh. :)
Hey I didn't listen to the video.
Is that Meat Loaf?
Trooper York said...
Hey I didn't listen to the video.
Did you see the guy throwing snowballs at the tree?
Smidgenium?
Fat narrator guy has a possibly politically incorrect drawing on his bulletin board.
Doc Brown guy throws like a President.
Nextinlineium.
I like the sound of "Synovium", but that's already a thing.
It's not as dense as Obama, so perhaps some other politician should be honored. Pelosium? Nah, too toxic and nasty. Reidium? Sounds like radium but is even more unstable. That might work.
The Periodic Table predicts that ununseptium should be a halogen and as such should be willing to take on an additional electron to become "ununseptide" (cf. chlorine becoming chloride. As we descend down a period, elements become more and more electronically obese and there may be a "one more thin wafer" point where this rule is broken. But the difficulty here is that the 117 nucleus is so unstable that its existence alone is hard to prove, let alone its behavior.
*Applies iodine to my wound, looks up "halogens", encounters "dephlogisticated" and marvels at that word.*
UUS, if "pro-juiced", as opposed to "amateur-duced" (that narrator, while informative, had a horrible accent), sounds like it would be toxic, dangerous, then I stopped reading, thinking that UUS would be like flourine on steriods.
Maybe a UUS-based Teflon equivalent would be useful for future politicians who find Teflon insufficiently non-sticky for their predicaments.
It's a good thing we have top men working on these issues.
An observed coupling of francium with an atom of ununseptium would test the latter's membership in the "salt-forming" (halogen) club. Francium should surrender its valence electron to ununseptium to make francium ununseptide. Give that both elements come from a "Second Coming" scenario (their centers cannot hold), they may wind up exchanging neutrons rather than an electron.
Either Putinium or Obamium DOES seem appropriate for an unstable element.
Unstablium?
Dilithium?
Then we can run a tape of Jimmy Doohan saying the dilithium crystals need a wee recharge.
PS How come elements are never named after babes?
Barium? (already taken)
Monrovium?
Lorenium?
Even DeHavillandium.
"But the difficulty here is that the 117 nucleus is so unstable that its existence alone is hard to prove, let alone its behavior."
yetium
chupacabraum
DeHavillandium reacts well with errolflynnium but unfortunately doesn't bond which results in errolflynnium becoming unstable.
How about the small countries? No one ever looks out for them:
Andorram
Sanmarinium
Lichtensteinium
Wait, better idea. If it's heavy and unstable, and no one knows what it's good for, how about...
Holyromanimperium?
Well, It's hard to believe that no one said "Althousium".
Methadrium. I like it.
How about destructium? Or Gundanium.
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