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 From:  ANT_THOMAS   
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36347.4 
I agree with both of you, it probably won't cause any confusion at all. But it still annoyed me!

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 From:  Wayne (SCOREZ2000)  
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36347.5 In reply to 36347.4 
What is it? Ecto plasm?


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 From:  Radio  
 To:  Wayne (SCOREZ2000)     
36347.6 In reply to 36347.5 

Its the largest element currently known.
Until its officialy named, I think its still ununpentium (i.e. 115, its number in the periodic table)

 

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.

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 From:  Wayne (SCOREZ2000)  
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36347.7 In reply to 36347.6 
Is it icky?


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 From:  ANT_THOMAS   
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36347.8 In reply to 36347.6 
It's 112, ununbium.

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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)  
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36347.9 In reply to 36347.8 
Copernicum is 112, but hasn't 115 now been identified (to be confirmed)?

bastard by name, bastard by nature

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 From:  Radio  
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36347.10 In reply to 36347.8 

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.

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 From:  Mouse  
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36347.11 In reply to 36347.10 
Does it taste of peas?

Which of the following would you most prefer?
A: a puppy,
B: a pretty flower from your sweety, or
C: a large properly formatted data file?
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 From:  Radio  
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36347.12 In reply to 36347.11 
Dunno - go taste some and let me know.
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 From:  Manthorp  
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36347.13 In reply to 36347.6 
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.

"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked."
James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951

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 From:  JonCooper  
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36347.14 
Copernicium does not have enough Os in it

Jon
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS   
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36347.15 

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.

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