Copernicium

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.