Copernicium

From: Radio20 Jul 2009 15:18
To: ANT_THOMAS 10 of 15

Is that all? I thought they would have got further than that by now!

 

Wayne, dunno if its icky, but its so radioactive that if it was available in any sort of quantity it'd probably have a nice green glow.

From: Mouse20 Jul 2009 15:28
To: Radio 11 of 15
Does it taste of peas?
From: Radio20 Jul 2009 15:52
To: Mouse 12 of 15
Dunno - go taste some and let me know.
From: Manthorp20 Jul 2009 16:02
To: Radio 13 of 15
quote:
As such a large element, its very very unstable and as far a I know, hasn't existed for more than a few fractions of a second, and even then that's only under laboratory conditions.


On the contrary, I have an amusingly designed cocktail stick dispenser made of it, a souvenir of Rhyll, in my weird shit draw. The cocktail sticks keep falling out, which I had put down to poor design, but I'm wondering now whether it might be a consequence of atomic instability.
From: JonCooper20 Jul 2009 20:41
To: ALL14 of 15
Copernicium does not have enough Os in it
From: ANT_THOMAS18 Apr 2011 16:28
To: ALL15 of 15

I've got my spade out.

 

Turns out IUPAC decided Cp was a bad symbol for it, one of the reasons being the reason I gave in post 1, so they've gone for Cn instead. I'm much happier about the whole issue now.