Thursday, 9 June 2011

Doctor Who Science Fact — New Periodic Table Elements

The Periodic Table of Elements has been updated with two new man-made elements, 114 and 116, numbers that refer to the number of protons they have.

Gawker reports:
Elements 114 and 116, both originally formed in Moscow in 2004 and 2006, beat out would-be elements 113, 115 and audience favorite 118, all three of which were rejected by the international judges' panel after weeks of grueling, dramatic competition between the extremely unstable substances.
Neither one of these new elements has a name, other than the number. I have a suggestion: Dalekanium. Make it happen, scientists!

1 Comments:

TheMarkJoe said...

I like the look of Xenon these days, it looked a lot different when I was at school.