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- sipsyrup, on 06/15/2009, -4/+42Because you touch yourself at night.
- Ryuusen, on 06/15/2009, -4/+21Element 113: Unobtanium
- dygel, on 06/15/2009, -0/+11Uub is its temporary distinction. Now that the element has been confirmed, the German discovery team has I think until the fall to come up with a formal name for it.
- dygel, on 06/15/2009, -0/+7I would question the awesomeness of it. This new element is something the world has seen only a mere handful of atoms of. There isn't enough of this stuff to fill a thimble. It doesn't occur naturally and requires massive amounts of energy to produce. At present, the only possible application it has would be in looking for an even more fleeting, heavier 113th element.
- Jektal, on 06/15/2009, -0/+7Well, to be fair, saying that something doesn't occur naturally is unprovable.
It may require massive amounts of energy and very very specific circumstances to produce, but so does lead or iron. Space is big. - zachstanley, on 06/15/2009, -0/+6It's true--just look at the name: Un-un-bi-um. One-one-two-um. But no one wanted to call it THAT.
- TallestSkil, on 06/15/2009, -1/+7Ununtrium, right now.
- k3rfuffl3, on 06/15/2009, -2/+7It took so long because, unlike religion, science requires a repeatable experiment.
- dygel, on 06/15/2009, -0/+5Most of the super-heavy metals have very brief half lives. There is no use for them because they only exist for minutes at a time.
- Greengoo, on 06/15/2009, -1/+6For the several "unnamed" elements they use these prefixes then "-um" as a placeholder:
un - one
bi - two
tri - three
(etc)
So 112 = Un + Un + Bi + Um - NJank, on 06/15/2009, -0/+4Almost:
http://www.slate.com/id/2220300/pagenum/all/ - Masterful1, on 06/15/2009, -0/+4they are saving that for somewhere around 120-140
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability
I can't wait. - FearlessFreep, on 06/15/2009, -0/+4Three times in the last four threads
- thomn8r, on 06/15/2009, -2/+5There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,
And gold and protactinium and indium and gallium,
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.
There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium,
And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium,
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.
And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.
There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium,
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium,
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium.
And ununbium - ebcreasoner, on 06/15/2009, -0/+3Imodium!
- dygel, on 06/15/2009, -0/+3True enough. However, in the geological sense, you aren't going to find this stuff buried in a mountain somewhere. It's a different caliber of discovery than silver ("oh hey this blue ***** is worth something!") or radium ("this neat rock glows in the dark!"). We're talking about a super-heavy radioactive substance with a half-life of about 9 minutes (which, granted, is one of the more persistent super-heavy metals). So, if this stuff does occur naturally either geologically or cosmically, it only exists for a few minutes before it's something else.
- dygel, on 06/15/2009, -0/+3I first heard it in The Core, a completely awesome terrible science disaster movie. The plot is that the rotation of the Earth's core is slowing to a stop, which will result in everyone dying basically. So, the US Government find these guys who have weaponized laser technology and work with them to build a ship that will allow them to drill into the Earth's mantle, get to the outer core, and nuke the molten layer of it to kick-start the rotation.
So they need a metal that withstand immense pressure and intense heat of the Earth's interior. What's the answer? Unobtanium.
The Wikipedia entry actually mentions several of its attestations in science-fiction literature and film: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium - Misterberu, on 06/15/2009, -3/+5Great read. Also; here's the whole thing on one page:
http://www.slate.com/id/2220300/pagenum/all/
Don't know why they had to put a link to it at the bottom of the article's first page... they should have just linked to it in the first place - venomoushealer, on 06/15/2009, -3/+5My vote is for adamantium.
- channeleaton, on 06/15/2009, -2/+4Sooo...
Has anyone thought of a use for the ultra-heavy elements, or are they just spending this grant money for the hell of it? - inactive, on 06/15/2009, -0/+2My engineering professor used that name when we did problems in class where materials were massless, frictionless, and unbreakable.
- dygel, on 06/15/2009, -0/+2Well, as it took 13 years to approve ununbium, you're going to have to wait about 90 years before anyone's trying to find element unbinilium or higher.
- paulina7m, on 11/14/2009, -0/+1Want to know an easy way to memorize all elements? Make up a melody, and sing them! This was done hilariously, here
http://digg.com/d319UMb - glinsvad, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1Actually, the distinction there would be that science requires a falsifiable theory (look up falsificationism on wikipedia).
- FearlessFreep, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1buried for trying to reference a web comic that wasn't funny to begin with
- marytormey, on 09/07/2009, -0/+1How old is this story? My periodic table was copyrighted in 2006 and it includes Ununbium 112,
Ununtrium 113, Ununquadium 114, Ununpentium 115, Ununhexium 116, Ununseptium 117, and Ununoctium 118. - aserer511, on 06/15/2009, -3/+4science is truly awesome in a way.we've been colliding stuff to get new elements? awesome
- donkevin, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1Do none of you read nataliedee?
- Djfind, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1Conversely, dugg because Seanstuart finally made it funny
- johannduplessis, on 06/15/2009, -5/+6Woaw, that's heavy
- taketheleap, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1no, it goes like THIS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDtdQ8bTvRc - NathanielJ, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1That would be lies.
- Jektal, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1Does anyone know where this term came from?
I always thought it was from Futurama first, but recently I heard an announcer at a vintage WWII air show make a quip about a rare engine using the term. Somehow I doubt that guy watches Futurama. Is their an older origin of the term that Futurama was referencing? Or just coincidence? - daimposter, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1i thought that's why the dinosaurs died?
- banski, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1You need an observable quantity of atoms for it to count, there are other gaps in the heavy end of the table
- FlyingCaveman, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1 i thought it went like this..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9tpb6k5fIA
yeah yakko's world. - ampdj89, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1It first came from Oakley.
- lusenok2, on 06/16/2009, -0/+1It was predicted that some very heavy elements may actually be stable - "island of stability"
So these guys are checking their hypoteses as well as looking for new exciting materials. - Masterful1, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1the goal is to reach the island of stability, its not all for nothing you know...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability - malex, on 06/15/2009, -1/+1I have no idea what you're arguing against.
- gordigor, on 06/15/2009, -1/+1Now you know how Pluto feels.
- aserer511, on 06/15/2009, -2/+2true, but don't look at it that way. consider these things so exotic we can only have a few grams at a time
- malex, on 06/15/2009, -2/+1It's all politics, man.
- SerifTheRobot, on 06/15/2009, -3/+2Super. Now me periodic table t-shirt is obsolete.
- EndouOuto, on 06/15/2009, -2/+1Racism?
- mikerad86, on 06/15/2009, -2/+1Wow these comments are terrible...
- thespanielator, on 06/15/2009, -2/+1thanks, I must remember to pay more att
- brikj, on 06/15/2009, -2/+1They can create all the new stuff they want but if it can only be found in a labratory after supercolliding who knows what with who knows what, disintegrates in nanoseconds and can only be detected by the pieces that remain. It wasn't an element.
- Narcism, on 06/15/2009, -3/+1Woooosh...
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