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Originally posted by Japofran@May 7 2006, 06:02 AM
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Well element 115 was created inlabs not too long ago but it has life time measured in seconds.
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I didn't know, I googled for a periodic table and it didn't display that element -although it displayed elements with atomic numbers 114 and 116-, it must be outdated. I already knew and told about these superheavy elements' unstability, that's what makes it impossible for them to occur naturally anywhere.
Even if the "Island of Stability" hypothesis should be right, you've said yourself that the 115-protons element is not stable. And the 116-protons one (Uuh) mustn't be either. So if Lazar wished to make believable his claim of having used a stable superheavy element, he should have shot even higher in terms of atomic number. Science discredits him.
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It is times like this that I realise that I am closet masochist. As all this talk about superheavy elements makes me want to dig up my nuclear physics textbook and apply the semi-empirical mass formula and some calculus to find the longest lifetime isotope of element 115.
Fortunately, this fit of self-abusive madness will pass before I can find the book, and I have long since forgotten the formula (and I will convenently ignore the possibility of finding the formula online).