This Superheavy Atom Factory Is Pushing the Limits of the Periodic Table
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- As we push the Periodic Table of the Elements further and further into the unknown, its familiar columns and rows are threatening to crumble. What’s next for this science icon?
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Superheavy elements exist for a fraction of time and are nearly impossible to catch. But understanding them could force us to reimagine the most iconic scientific symbol of all time: the periodic table.
In 1869, Russian chemist, Dmitri Mendeleev, laid the foundations for what would become the modern periodic table. Mendeleev arranged the known elements in order of increasing atomic weight-the average number of protons, neutrons, and electrons in an element's nucleus.
And since the 1800s, scientists have been working to slowly fill out the rest of the periodic table, isolating the elements Mendeleev predicted from various materials. The table’s design was revisited and perfected as more elements were added, but as nuclei got heavier, finding them became a bit more complicated.
In order to continue-scientists couldn’t just isolate elements from existing materials, instead they had to create them
And to do that, they used a particle accelerator, or cyclotron.
Cyclotrons are large instruments that accelerate ions to a fraction of the speed of light and have been used to discover heavy elements from curium to plutonium. But most recently, a team at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory collaborated with a lab in Russia to complete the periodic table’s 7th row-the home of the superheavy elements.
Find out more about the hunt for new elements that don’t typically exists here on Earth and what it could mean for the periodic table in this episode of Focal Point.
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FIONA Measures the Mass Number of 2 Superheavy Elements: Moscovium and Nihonium
newscenter.lbl.gov/2018/11/28...
“A team led by nuclear physicists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has reported the first direct measurements of the mass numbers for the nuclei of two superheavy elements: moscovium, which is element 115, and nihonium, element 113.”
Meet Dawn Shaughnessy, the Real-Life Alchemist Who Expanded the Periodic Table
gizmodo.com/meet-dawn-shaughn...
“The periodic table is chemistry’s holy text. Not only does it list all of the tools at chemists’ disposal, but its mere shape has made profound predictions about new elements and their properties that later came true. But few chemists on Earth have a closer relationship with the document than Dawn Shaughnessy, whose team is partially responsible for adding six new elements to table’s ranks.”
Is It Time to Upend the Periodic Table?
www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/sc...
“Dr. Pyykkö noted, however, that the probability of finding the heaviest of superheavy elements is less than hitting a golf ball in Tokyo and making a hole-in-one on the top of Mount Fuji. If scientists get lucky, the resulting super-superheavy elements might even have nuclei with exotic shapes, like a doughnut.”
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If you're wondering how FIONA got its name, the team was watching Burn Notice when they were building it and Fiona is a character on the show. They decided they wanted to name it after her, so Dr. Gates came up with an acronym: "For the Identification Of Nuclide A." "A” represents the scientific symbol for an element’s mass number. Sometimes names come first, and acronyms come later! What would you name your superheavy-element-hunting-machine?
My super heavy element hunting machine name would be:
Shemam.
Super Heavy Element Magnetic Attaction Machine.
Do we know what the heaviest atom/compound is in the human body naturally?
i would name haf or heavy atom fusor
it was shrek don’t lie to me
Seeker I Loved burn notice
Hafnium = 180.
Fullnium = 360.
No need to say anything, I'll see myself out.
👉🚪
Quaternium = 90
What about 720
Twofullnium = 720
Trumpium
Scientist: We accelerate the ions to a fraction of the speed of light.
Me, an intellectual: I can walk at a fraction of the speed of light.
you're not wrong lol
@@logicplague2077 They really should have been more specific
Me a faptional
I can fap to a fraction of the speed of light
Thats technically right
Eat it relativity
Neutron: “What’s the price for joining in with you lads at the cyclotron?”
Proton: “For you? No charge.”
Hahahaha Nerd's Joke that made me laugh lol
Shut.
Awful
Only true nerds would find that funny XD
caelan sutherland If you have to be a nerd to get that joke then there’s a problem lol
Super heavy, highly unstable and decaying quickly? sounds like me
lmfao that's fucked
+1 for being able to laugh at yourself!
LOOOOOOOOOLLLL
Did u mean the decaying part of you is your memory?
Stop! Get some help.
Technically, every accelerator accelerates things to a fraction of the speed of light
what they meant was a significant fraction of the speed of light. think: traveling around the earth 7 times in a second kind of fast.
Like a mobility scooter
Technically, I can also run at a fraction of the speed of light.
Welllll teeeechnically since there is no such thing as deceleration, only acceleration against the velocity vector of an object. If you accelerated to a stop then you are no longer moving at a fraction of the speed of light. Meaning, an accelerator that accelerates you to not a fraction of the speed of light.
@@ethansmith5560 Traveling around the earth 7 times in a second would be the actual speed of light, not a fraction of it.
And yet they have failed to create the element of surprise.
You’ll never know for sure until they succeed
Jsuarez6 not funny
Yash Shroff I think it's pretty funny. Why don't you?
Because I don’t think it’s funny AHG AGF
Noone suspects the Spanish Inquisition!
The search for the hardest element to achieve. Brexitinium.
stu Art. Haha...love it.
Labs (specifically located in the UK, wierdly) have tried to find it for years, with no luck.
@@johnthegamerman404 . Oh, this just keeps getting better...can't wait for the next comment!
@@isobar5857 lol same. exhilarated and filled with anticipation amirite?
You need to get the balance right (pun intended) put too much Corbynite in and not enough isotopic Johnsimium you'll be tied up with dealing with the resulting degraded Farage molecules which can only be done by using a solvent super cool conductor like milkshake.. 🤦😂
International Machine possibly costing millions...
Held together in parts by zip ties
By Trillions Actually , (that a 12 Zero's)
Hey, don’t underestimate the power of zip ties...
Rahim EL-MullA I don’t think it’s worth 1,000,000,000,000 maybe a few billion but probably not a trillion
@@Darling-su3ci
I searched it up , you correct , It's just 22 Billion Dollar , Not a trillion as i assumed , i was wrong then .
@@rahimel-mulla2894 I can't believe I've just witnessed someone admitting they're wrong on the internet. Bravo
It's really crazy how Mendeleev could predict so many unknown elements and even predict their properties.
People used to be smart...then, all of the sudden they started to dumb down, decay and will die off. Look under "beautiful ones" mouse experiment.
@@Helloverlord It's an interesting psychology study and I do recommend people read it! However, you're failing to realize that there are *many* highly-intelligent and skilled people, especially scientists, alive today and making incredible studies every single day. It's difficult to know how many living geniuses there are at any given moment, we can only find out by letting them make their discoveries and produce their groundbreaking research. In 50 years, there will be plenty of books, movies, shows, documentaries and history papers about dozens of total geniuses alive right now and how they completely changed our scientific understanding of the universe. And as long as the human species doesn't wipe itself out through global nuclear war, extreme anthropogenic climate change disasters, and or suffer from a series of natural cataclysms like a massive asteroid or CME, then there will continue to be more and more brilliant minds. That's why it's of the utmost importance to support public education and accessible/affordable higher-level education and university for as many human beings as possible, as well as to fight as hard as we can to reduce the impact of climate change and lower the probability of nuclear wars by supporting leaders who think rationally, logically, compassionately, and embrace public education, healthcare, and science funding.
@@metanumia : I didnt fail to understand anything, but I got a question for you: who is funding general education? Is it a government in most of the cases? Who is choosing a govt? How do you expect for a undereducated person to advance in science? Why are military budgets so high compared to science ones if we are so smart and advancing? ...and of course it will be one off wonders here and there but Im thinking overall...
@@Helloverlord ok boomer
Because he is making a good point you revert to insults because you have nothing else to say? You prove his point.
Element 115 is what UFOs use to fly their space ships, so says Bob Lazar
@bobothecreepyclown Hey man, its pretty niche stuff. You can't find _Interdimensional Wormhole to Uranus 5: Relativistic Space Goo_ anywhere these days.
It's looks like they renamed this power source element from Bob element name to the new one !
Bob lazar is very interesting! And intelligent
Yes, the electrogravitic drive of the "sport model" was fueled by (then called) Ununpentium. A-gravity (atomic gravity) can be amplified when irradiated because the electron orbits extend so far out. How the Greys managed to find or synthesize enough 115 to make use of it is an open question. As recently as 2017 Lazar's business United Nuclear was raided by the FBI because a customer bought thallium from the company to poison his wife, Janel Sturzl. Some believe the larger reason for the raid was to uncover any 115 Lazar may have possessed.
@@point-xn4tu -@point61803398874989 is a Beautiful name !--I think that raid was to look at getting the 115 back and to keep Bob under control !--Gravity is cause by the electron spin it pulls mass !--Thank for that info !
I'm pretty disappointed you guys didn't talk about the island of stability...
U-238 is close enough. Find something to smash it with that puts out anything except neutrinos and hard gammas so we don't need much shielding. Pretty sure the cross section on some elements makes it easy to block charged muons and fast neutrons. If one in particular releases nearly all the matter into energy that can be recovered thermally then that would be almost a holy grail except for the energy you put into the accelerator.
Fast neutron reactors would do just this: burn U-238 with neutrons above 1MeV.
We definitely wanted to include it, but there wasn't enough time! We did ask Dr. Shaughnessy about it though-- here's what she said: "We don't quite know if we're there yet. We do see an effect in that element 114 is longer lived than element 115, the half-life reduces dramatically going from 114 to 115. The problem is in our experiments we don't have enough neutrons in the system, because it's not just protons, but the neutrons come into play, and so we're not quite at the center of the island of stability. We're sort of out on the shore, so we're seeing an effect, but we're not able to say that we're there exactly yet."
@@Seeker thank you for mentioning this comment
@@Seeker - I have heard of using different neutron configurations to change the configuration and chemistry of the nucleus. Something about how 4 neutrons could be fused together in a solid block which could improve the stability of the nucleus. I'd love to hear if any research was done regarding that over the past few years.
@@Seeker You guys should do an exclusive video on it! I find it super interesting and not a lot of people know much about the topic
The atoms held a celebration party for the birth of their new sibling, but he didn't stick around long enough.
But existence for atoms would be measured in the Planck time scales, so from a certain perspective they would be around for the party. 😊
He had to split.
@@thereaction18 Your name is perfect.
New discoveries about the periodic table are always amazing to at least know about..
As a Chemistry student and lover this is amazing and scarry at the same time, im having a really hard time calculating things with the elements we already know so all i can imagine is my crazy teachers asking us to play around some massive numbers coming from these new discoveries 😶.
“A fraction of the speed of light” can be any non zero positive number. That’s too vague
it can also be 0 and a negative number
Speed is scalar so no negative values.
@@richardmendoza7852 It also can't be any positive number either, seeing as you can't write all numbers as fractions.
I walk at a fraction of the speed of light
@@richardmendoza7852 the video said accelerates. This is a vector quantity so there can be negative values
When are we getting to the island of stability tho? A subject worthy of "how close are we?"
Bump
@The Yangem that's not how it works my dude) as far as I'm aware. It has nothing to do with the atoms
@The Yangem just a quick check bro: do you know anything about magic numbers and what is the isotope of calcium that is used in the process of synthesis? Just to verify
It smells like soy in here
@The Yangem ok cool so you know something. I'm not sure why you proposed smashing two atoms of element 118 which we don't have a way of producing in any useful amount.
My dad, a physicist, would have loved this channel if he were still alive!
When did Pam from The Office become a nuclear physicist🤔
Shubhranshu Maurya and Ross from friends??
@@yoboi_____8675 yeah!! I was wondering the same😆
When you realize you’re just atoms that know they’re atoms
I want to know, is there an element in you, that is not an atom?
Maybe your consciousness is the 99,9% empty space...........................................................
@@RKroese no your consciousness is all of your bio electricity
Well, technically we're all just complex static waves/vibrations in the various particle fields, and our particular self- replicating configuration is the part of the universe that knows it's a universe.
@@zephyrous8155 may I introduce you to quantum biology
Bob Lazer wants to know how you created element 115.
WOULD LOVE TO HAVE A WHOLE SERIES OF EPISODES ABOUT CHEMISTRY,ELEMENTS AND THE PERIODIC TABLE! Any extra details would be great! Too bad back in the school no one explained in a way that raised interest and curiosity. Everything about chemistry seemed really booring back then... Nice episode btw , thumbs up
lmao the thing's held together with zip ties, i love it
That's what they're made for, it's the rest of us that are using them wrong! :)
@Mister Fister ☺️
I like how element 115 keeps getting dodged...not even mentioned
how I got from funny cat videos into an atom smashing factory on autoplay in less than 15 mins sums up how youtube recommendation algorithms work....
When you are so early that there are no funny comments to read
Read mine!
Somebody called the gal with short hair ross from friends
That's ok. Jokes about elements come around periodically.
Pull a hair out your butt and you'll feel how tears runs your eyes, that's Quantum physics. The connection of two points in a body unless measured will show the phenomena.
What a shame.
Is my money made of heavy elements? It keeps disappearing
Hahha good one
ok boomer
Ok boomer
This video is probably the best one that clearly explains the process of superheavy element creation. Good job!
Just waiting for you to discover unobtainium
We did it is 118 it was renamed
What about Handwavium?
Panzerkampfwagium
My guess is Holdmybeerium as 130 xD
The voices of the interviewees sound like they have been recorded with a phone.
FIONA: *measures the mass number of 2 super heavy elements*.
Shrek: * crying tears of happiness * am so proud.
Awesome stuff and the explanation of the steps in the process and relative information is very appreciated! Thanks
I'd be interested in knowing whether they can also make isotopes. As we know from lighter elements, certain isotopes have longer decay times than others of the same element.
Hi, thanks for watching! Want more on heavy elements? Be sure to check out this episode of Elements on how the heaviest elements in our universe were seen created in the heart of a kilonova after two neutron stars collided: czcams.com/video/c5WKpFZHYPk/video.html
All radioactive particles and very dangerous.
Haven't discovered the way to blow up the earth but still trying.
*You have no way of keeping the other particles and waste safe from people and the environment and continue down the path of this death.
Wow! I was always so curious about how this particle accelerators worked, and how they sorted the numerous elements that it creates, but was too afraid to ask. So interesting! It's like super easy for a science magazine to say that "scientists discovered such element by colliding other ones, and then observed it", but I always wanted to know more! Thanks, then, for illuminating the process :)
This video is very informative and easy to understand. Great job Seeker!
Imagine if we can get in the island of stability isotopes for 118
Super heavy noble gas... could quite literally be a reverse version of a universal solvent.
Now that Hafnium is discovered, Half Life 3 confirmed.
Holy shit
You were right man
Hafnium has been discovered since 1923
Still waiting for them to discover vibranium
Awesome Guys! Keep discovering! Best wishes!
Fact : The theoretical limit of periodic table is Feynmanium.
In order to create it, it would require two nuclei to smash at exact speed of light, which is impossible
All these for a single atom
That's what makes science intresting
Super Heavies: We exist!
Time: Sure, knock yourself out.
I can imagine the amount of stress a team went through to figure out how build these machines to do what they wanted it to do.
This was more informative than I expected, a great job.
You should focus on getting 115 stable... see if you can use it as "fuel" in the reactor of a "non-reactive" propulsion system. haha
What's funny?
I am sure they have been working on this because it generate a gravity field or anti gravity field what did Bob say ? I remember it is the power source for 25 years just a little piece of it !
@@aneskralj1534 a Joe Rogan podcast with Cmdr Fravor and Jemery Corbell. Corbell repeats the term "non-reactive propulsion system" about a thousand times. Watch it.
115 is so exciting!
Fascinating! What a time to be alive. So much to learn. Thanks for posting this.
Wonderful and very clear explination, thanks!
Tell them to make stable element 115.🛸🧬
I want to surf the universe in this lifetime.💫✨
Bob lazar lurking in the back 👀
First background music track reminded me of one of the Doom themes, and the second music track of Mass Effect (a kind of variation on "Spectre Induction" by Jack Wall & Sam Hulick).
I'd very much like these videos to mention or list the soundtracks used, would be nice.
Very cool video. I appreciate the breakdown on how these machines actually work. It has me wondering though, other than discovery and completing the periodic table, is there a purpose for finding these unstable elements that only last a few milliseconds? Thanks again for the great video :)
I had a project on the Boron group and looked for videos about Livermorium and found this. So cool!
Aye Dr. Shaughnessy look like Pam from The Office 😍
She also looked completely lost.
looking for that island of stability!
Does a proton count of 92 ring a bell?
Fascinating. In college, I only had inorganic chemistry and basic physics for my Engineering degrees (and this was back in the late 80s, early 90s). So my question is rather basic.
I learned that the proper atomic model for electrons is an electron cloud, not the classic Bohr model of orbiting electrons. But the video mentions electrons reaching Relativistic speeds.
I am not sure what I am missing, but I want to understand how Relativistic speeds would apply to the electron cloud model. It would seem (at first blush) that it would only matter in Bohr's classic model.
Wow, i feel like a peasant among generations of alchemists. Amazing!
If only you could get your hands on Bob Lazar's piece of stable element 115 and bombard that within this machine....
They do stuff in top secret labs all the time Godcaly123 on 115 !
The intro music sounds like the twilight zone theme
I thought it kinda sounded like a Tool song.
@@DAToft Dude, I just thought the same thing, you been puffing too? 🤣
Yeah my guess is push it by tool
Sounded more like Tool to me. I thought it was a pun on heavy metals
Def Tool-esque.
We have to create means to increase gravity inside some of those experimental chambers so that those heavier elements don't decay as fast , this is a huge challenge of its own since we lack the underlying science to accomplish such a feat. A much easier thing we could do is rise the temperature of the targeted plate to ridiculous levels and try to cool the particles targeting the plate so that the probability of a collision is higher. Another possibility would involve creating new geometries of magnetic fields so that the fundamental laws of electromagnetism are actually inverted on one end of this reaction (such as the plate or the particles hitting it) so that the collisions are much more likely to occur because their respective nuclei would be drawn to each other instead of repelling. Some hinted that element 115 is part of the stability island of heavier elements , though I am not sure which elements would be required to create such a material.
You guys should do a video on the facility for rare isotope beams at Michigan state, took a tour of it last week and they are very close to creating the world first linear accelerator which is able to accelerate particles 100x faster then a centripetal accelerator... very fascinating
we have 500 lbs of element 115 at S4
A few ms later you have almost 500 lbs of moscovioum heated into an expanding, incandescent plasma that briefly sets the entire room on fire before blowing it away; and that's assuming an ordinary, boring alpha-decay of a modest 5 MeV. if it's fissile and has a spontaneous fission decay mode, then it will release 3.5 MT of explosive energy in a couple of milliseconds. A few seconds later you have an expanding fire ball, turning into a mushroom cloud where your building used to be. Roughly 1 minute later you have 1 atom of moscovium left somewhere in that mushroom cloud (again, unless it's fissile, then it will be gone much quicker).
2:00 *This reminds me of Iron Man 2 when he created a new element to power the Arc Reactor*
Re - discovered .
That's cuz you were born after 1992 and your life is meaningless
@@scientistsbaffled5730 ok boomer
@@NEVERMIND-io5mp ok coomer.
Well the part when he manually redirected the beam to create new element pissed me off way before I even saw the real accelerator. They could try more.
An important little detail of the early work on the Periodic Table was left out. Mendeleev studied increasingly heavy elements, but encountered discrepancies. Those discrepancies were worked out by Henry Mosely, who distinguished atomic number (number of protons) from atomic weight.
Heavy nuclei elements are extremely unstable. But it'd be very fun to observe their properties and behaviors. And how they change quickly in a short amount of time during their transformation into stable elements. But if you can go further, if you can create the heaviest nucleus, surpassing the limit, then theoretically, it could cause gravitational collapse though. But it will be super-stable.
Then we can also perform gravitational lensing experiments, in a lab.
And also we can test Quantum Entanglement in a new way by beaming one of the entangled photons into the heaviest element.
what do you mean by "it could cause gravitational collapse"?
Need to call Tony Stark, he did this by himself in like several hours lol
IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!
No man he did it in his lair
IN A MOVIE
It's not as heavy as my body trying to get up from bed on Monday morning😂
Wait, tomorrow is Monday :'l
DecaHelix sorry to hear that dear, but here tomorrow is Sunday and most people with 9-5 jobs will be sleeping in tomorrow morning
@@aleksanderpopov5060 time zones, ever heard of it? it's Monday tomorrow.
Try working 21-2:30 and then 6-8:30
@ninjarawr21 God, how spoiled these kids are to live a better life than us even though our life goal was to ensure our children had a better life than us.
F
It is incredible work here.
Great video!
Just whip of 2 kg of the stable variant of element 115 for me please ^^ !
Have a Flying Saucer here that needs refuling...
Interesting that CIA is not sharing their supply of 115 with them.
Neat stuff. Can’t wait for the day when men can be interviewed in science vids again.
Huh? Are you jealous of FIONA?
Very well made video!
A complex and somewhat esoteric topic clearly explained, at least to this layman. Many thanks. I wish those researchers success in their questing.
What is the difference between cyclotron and particle accelerator?? Help me out
I see no man in lab coat
yeah, gotta push that narrative...
Who the hell cares?
@@yeahkeen2905 the people who made the video, apparently
ColecoKid and all you people are doing is giving them a reason to care more. Don’t see how that’s a good thing.
@@yeahkeen2905 Because there's no logic in caring at all. What is between your legs has nothing to do with what is between your ears.
Would be interesting to somehow get into the island of stability, understand if it is really there and how stable are the elements within it.
Why is Albert Ghiorso's name not on any of the elements of the Periodic Table ?? He discovered more elements, 12, than anyone in the modern era. He was well liked and a creative and enormously talented Physicist.
*I time travel to Ancient Greece *
People: So what technology did you bring for us from 2200 years ahead?
Me: I don't know
so, Pam went from a secretary to a scientist, what a jump
If the pressure in the cores of neutron stars are capable of pressing atomic nuclei together into, like, city-sized clumps, wouldn't that imply that an element could exist with literally any atomic weight? Or am I missing something?
I find it utterly astonishing that the chemistry of such a small number of atoms can be studied at all.
How to keep those heavy atoms stable? Add more gluons!
they wouldn't know they were unstable if they were travelling at relativistic speeds!
Stabilise element 115
StiX you’d have to add about 8 neutrons to element 115 to make it stable, you’d have to do in a fraction of a second.
It’s difficult to even add 1 neutron to an element using our current technology
they already have ;)
Greg James no they haven’t. It’s an unstable isotope of 115
@@izayakross7875 sure sure ;)
@@izayakross7875 add 8 neutrons compared to what base nucleus? What would be the final number of neutrons?
This will open new research into new atom power sources and give us ideas of how atoms we know of work an better ways to use said atoms.
I work in this lab in Russia. Nice to see it in your video.
So you take two elements to make a new element. You've fused it. Great! When it breaks down, does it go back to the two elements that were originally used to make the new element? If not, is it randomly decaying to different elements, or is it predictable?
It decays based on how unstable it is. There are 3 types of radiation, Alpha radiation, Beta radiation, and Gamma radiation. Alpha radiation is where an unstable atom emits a helium nucleus (2 neutrons and 2 protons). There are actually two types of Beta decay, but they both involve the emission of an electron. And finally, Gamma radiation, where an unstable atom emits a high energy photon. There are other less common types of decay, such as Neutron emission, Proton emission, Cluster decay, Electron capture, and Spontaneous fission. The type of decay an atom goes through depends on its number of protons and neutrons.
Are there no men working at the site? My daughter actually caught that one... apparently it's a field reserved for women?
4:55
Women looking like males.
@@richardwaldron222 Token dude... it could have been a janitor.
@@PEGuyMadison dude it crealy a man working on a big computer and it doesnt look he a janitor
@@ghostgamen8283 *danger *danger *danger gender assumption, these people could all be men according to themselves. 🤔 (2020 realities)
Amazing !
Surprised you guy didn't mention "islands of stability", that's quite possibly the most important prospect of their work.
Lets find that one stable isotope of Muscovium (115) that produces antigravitational effects
xD xD
Anyone watching this thinking about bob lazar when they talk about element 1...
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Of course lol.
Nailed what I was thinking. 115 should be named Lazarium
Yeah, I am also looking forward publicly available spaceship fuel, within the near future ;3
Well, considering it would be a breach of clearance, thus treasonous to say the REAL element that was used (or theorized, tested, or planned)... 'there is another' that can stand in, the humble U-238 with a very stable half-life compared to its peers, at over 4 billion years. You could say that its almost a sore thumb in the chaotic ocean, teeming with possibilities.
Someone sneezed at 4:17. Bless you
What’s that music in the background? Awesome video, very well done.
Scientist : Found new elements
Me : Barely remembering the periodic table
Perfect the creation of element 115 so we can have anti-gravity and flying cars please.
No we need a stable version
thought criminal iono bro. Whatever isotope is stable enough, we need summa dat. Lol
I want this track. Nice groove
It's very interesting to know that the weak force is to thank for limiting the number of elements. Maybe if you had materials that could absorb W and Z particles, you could use for chemistry those elements that are unstable by causing them to last longer.
I want to make a joke about this, but making superheavy atoms is no small matter.
Why is she wearing googles for the interview?
PPE requirements in the lab. Seeker wanted to have the interview in the lab, she probably informed them that they have to wear PPE if they shoot in there.
Makes here look legit 🤣
Because all of this is fake and its for the show
Sooooo fascinating
good documentation ........