Oh Lady

Ahoyglavinium!

Professor Frink/Professor Frink/He'll make you laugh/He'll make you think/He likes to run and then the thing with the...person... Oh, that monkey's going to pay...

Wonderflonium!!

/Do Not Bounce

Good news everyone! Jumbonium should be added next.

Unobtainium...?

FTFA: All five of these elements are so large and unstable they can be made only in the lab, and they fall apart into other elements very quickly.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if they fall apart into other elements, how are they themselves elements?

FlavaFlavium?
Yeahhh boyeeeee.

Flavaflavium?

LarryDan43: FlavaFlavium?
Yeahhh boyeeeee.

Coulda been a simulpost but for my insistence on finding an image...

Thanks for the shout-out, subby!

aspAddict: LarryDan43: FlavaFlavium?
Yeahhh boyeeeee.

Coulda been a simulpost but for my insistence on finding an image...

I would have posted an image if I wasn't phone farking.

Utonium?

Name:Farkovium
Symbol: 00
:

Time to update this gem:

ELEMENTS (new window)

Hey, Chemistry.
You're starting to make Psychology look like a real science.

whynotisright: FTFA: All five of these elements are so large and unstable they can be made only in the lab, and they fall apart into other elements very quickly.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if they fall apart into other elements, how are they themselves elements?

You are wrong. Link (new window)

This news has got me harder than lutetium.

If anyone makes a stupid element name pun I am gonna barium!

wut

RiboFLAVIN! glavin

These elements were discovered through the hard work of the members of project HOYVIN MAYVIN

whynotisright: FTFA: All five of these elements are so large and unstable they can be made only in the lab, and they fall apart into other elements very quickly.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if they fall apart into other elements, how are they themselves elements?

Basic radioactive decay, of course. (You might be confusing element with elementary particle.)

A heavy nucleus splits into two lighter nuclei (fission), releasing an extra neutron or two in the process. That's how we get elements like helium in the Earth's crust.

whynotisright: FTFA: All five of these elements are so large and unstable they can be made only in the lab, and they fall apart into other elements very quickly.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if they fall apart into other elements, how are they themselves elements?

Transmutation, the goal of the Alchemists. Available at a reactor near you.

encyclopediaplushuman: whynotisright: FTFA: All five of these elements are so large and unstable they can be made only in the lab, and they fall apart into other elements very quickly.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if they fall apart into other elements, how are they themselves elements?

Radioactive decay can remove various subatomic particles, thus resulting in other elements. An element is just one type of substance with given properties that a smaller unit cannot possess the same exact properties and configuration.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_decay (new window)


Raoul Eaton: whynotisright: FTFA: All five of these elements are so large and unstable they can be made only in the lab, and they fall apart into other elements very quickly.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if they fall apart into other elements, how are they themselves elements?

You are wrong. Link (new window)



Didn't consider that. Thanks.

busy chillin': If anyone makes a stupid element name pun I am gonna barium!

I would never lead you to such an action.

Please don't let them discover Unobtainium. For if they do, Pandora, the Navi, and Eywa are doomed and so are we. Our only hope then will be Terra Nova so long as we keep Taylor's son from being born or kill him off while a child.

I think this covers us through 2154.

whynotisright: encyclopediaplushuman: whynotisright: FTFA: All five of these elements are so large and unstable they can be made only in the lab, and they fall apart into other elements very quickly.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if they fall apart into other elements, how are they themselves elements?

Radioactive decay can remove various subatomic particles, thus resulting in other elements. An element is just one type of substance with given properties that a smaller unit cannot possess the same exact properties and configuration.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_decay (new window)


Raoul Eaton: whynotisright: FTFA: All five of these elements are so large and unstable they can be made only in the lab, and they fall apart into other elements very quickly.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if they fall apart into other elements, how are they themselves elements?

You are wrong. Link (new window)



Didn't consider that. Thanks.

Sorry for being rude about it. I'm just cranky today.

BunkoSquad: At least we haven't yet devolved to Pepsium, Nikeum and Lowermybills.comium

Owmyballsium.

And I had Professor Frink in mind when I read about this in the paper this morning. +1 to subby for reading my mind.

busy chillin': If anyone makes a stupid element name pun I am gonna barium!

I'm sorry. Are we boron you?

Why, yes, I'm looking forward to the next update, Submitium.

/Glavin.
//With the thing ...
///LAdy

What sis the chemist say when he was shot by a cop? "Iodine!"

Said the hen-pecked drunkard: "The missus is coming: Hydrogen!"

LarryDan43: phone farking.

You can pick up pretty nasty viruses that way.

Ryker's Peninsula: Hey, Chemistry.
You're starting to make Psychology look like a real science.

Chemistry had the 1800s. Physics had the 1900s. This century will be dominated by Biology.

Tillmaster: whynotisright: FTFA: All five of these elements are so large and unstable they can be made only in the lab, and they fall apart into other elements very quickly.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if they fall apart into other elements, how are they themselves elements?

Transmutation, the goal of the Alchemists. Available at a reactor near you.

Or at your local smoke detector or fruit stand (new window).

The secret ingredient is...LOVE? Stupid machine!

Kwality Assurance: This century will be dominated by Biology.

Fap

Barnstormer: What sis the chemist say when he was shot by a cop? "Iodine!"

Said the hen-pecked drunkard: "The missus is coming: Hydrogen!"

Did you hear about the guy who robbed a bank while wearing a clown outfit? He was a silicon.

whynotisright: FTFA: All five of these elements are so large and unstable they can be made only in the lab, and they fall apart into other elements very quickly.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if they fall apart into other elements, how are they themselves elements?

Part of the testing is to recognize whether the fission decay of the supposed new element isn't just the resulting shattered new atoms after the smashing of the calcium with plutonium. They need to see that after the two elements are fused, that the resulting element is significantly stable to be considered an element in its own right before it fissions due to the instability of the nucleus.

The nucleus is made up of neutrons with zero electric charge and protons with +1 electric charge. The force that holds them together is the strong nuclear force. The strong nuclear force is millions of times stronger than the electromagnetic force (the one that you're familiar with when your hair stand up straight in dry air, or when you get a shock during the winter months in the northern states). But, the strong nuclear force only occurs in very very close distances. The strong nuclear force is what holds the two protons and two neutrons together in a helium atom, opposing the repelling force of the two protons in the atom.

Well, in the super-heavy elements (and even before them) the distance between the furthest protons in the nucleus are greater than the distance where the strong nuclear force has any effect. So, those protons will repel each other, although they're stuck to their nearby neutrons and other protons. That repulsion causes the nucleus to be unstable and eventually a clump will split off from the other clump, each clump taking a chunk of protons and neutrons with it. There's no guarantee split, but there's an expected distribution of the types of split atoms that would arise.

The question is whether when the calcium and plutonium were smashed together, was the resulting clump stable for a moment before fissioning apart, or was the smashing just creating several new broken clumps.

hahaha...

Something about this tickles me so.

Just thinking of Frink yelling out "glavinflavinanium" and "Heyladium" is cracking me up

/Approves

Let's say you're an architect and your building collapses immediately after the last brick is put in place. Should you hold a naming contest for your pile of rubble?

Wake me up when you create an element that can actually survive once it's been created.

aspAddict: Flavaflavium?

what about Flava... damn!

Cagey B: Barnstormer: What sis the chemist say when he was shot by a cop? "Iodine!"

Said the hen-pecked drunkard: "The missus is coming: Hydrogen!"

Did you hear about the guy who robbed a bank while wearing a clown outfit? He was a silicon.

'Silicon' works quite well as a bilingual pun, since the words 'silly' and 'con' are anglo-french homonyms.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.

/yes, I realize that I should have said 'synonyms', but work with me on this, OK?

Andulamb: Let's say you're an architect and your building collapses immediately after the last brick is put in place. Should you hold a naming contest for your pile of rubble?

Wake me up when you create an element that can actually survive once it's been created.

118, maybe.