BIG news…
The Great Beyond: New element ‘ununseptium’ plugs hole in periodic table: “Chemists have managed to create a new massively heavy element by smashing together atoms of calcium and berkelium.
A new paper by Yuri Oganessian of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia has been accepted by Physical Review Letters. It announces ‘the discovery of a new chemical element with atomic number Z=117’.”
We’ve been searching for 117 for a long while.
It will have a new name in the next 10 years or so (it’s a long process), but it’s great to have ununseptium on the chart now.
that’s awesome when will updated tables come out?
I’m guessing this summer…
It’s yet another reason that I’m not a big fan of printed periodic tables (or world maps). As soon as you put one up, things change.
In the age of Google Maps and great interactive Periodic Table sites and apps, sticking a static picture of Periodic Table on a classroom wall makes it seem like it is the law and will never change.
thats cool!!!!!!!!!!
looks like someone will need a board. or just add it
is there extra credit for me being amazed!!!!!!!!!!!!! Because i’m AAAAAMMMMMMMAAAAAAAAAZZZZZZZZZZZEEEEEEEEEEEED?!
its a great thing because when iam lord dicttor of the world well all be one big country then nothing will change because i rule with an iron fist
oh kool!
and everything will be called matt, even my cat!