Uranium is unstable too. Lead is the heaviest stable element, meaning that its half life is determined only by the half life of the proton. Plutonium was probably produced in the supernova that made our uranium it has just decayed in the intervening billions of years like most of our uranium.
@Ashtree81 If it's stable, then it can't power anything and is no use to anyone.
On an interesting note, atoms with an even number of protons are more stable and easy to create than those with odd numbers. So, Unbinilium (Element 120) is predicted to be easier to make than Ununennium (Element 119). For the same reasons that Uuo was discovered before Uus.
@WeaselWJ 117 is the tag for John-117 also known as the Master Chief, the protagonist from the Halo series of video games, novels and various other media.
What would this be used for though? i mean yeah its a great discovery for making new element by combining two elements but is it worth it ? it takes 6-7 months to make atleast 6 atoms worth of ununseptium. it doesnt seem worth to make this cause it takes to long. unlike 115 and 113 we dont have a full understanding of it.. like in the vid he said its unstable soo maybe we can find a way to use these for reactors. we should not use this untull we have a full understanding of it.
@XxWearsMexX cause it could cause a chemical reaction and it doesnt work like that. we would have to find its atomic number and locate the nucles then find how it was created to make more of it and make a nuclear reactor to combine this but it could take monts maybe years to make 1 atom of these two mixed. soo in a way u would have to clone uranuim then the reactor would be layered with plutonium and then they would pass and make one atom. if they do this it would be called element 119.thats why
@XxWearsMexX cause that's called nuclear fission, and would be very bad. Also, Berkelium IS heavier than Uranium, so I don't see why we'd use Uranium?
cause the heavier the element, the harder it is to make. and since 117 was a gap, they decided to try and make it, which meant getting elements with atomics numbers that add up to 117. i'm sure in the future there will be people trying to make even heavier elements, it's just those will be even harder.
surely this means that theoretically, you can continue reacting heavy atoms with each other to create even heavier, new elements, and assuming you can continue fusing them before the elements half life, create a virtually unlimited amount of new elements.
@brainiac777 You could in theory, but as we get higher and higher in atomic number, the nuclei become ridiculously unstable, and put out more of a positive charge to repel other nuclei. Eventually, it becomes impossible to produce a heavier element. Right now, the upper limit of protons is estimated to be somewhere around 170.
@guoscape Because Unun starts all placeholder element names on the periodic table. If we did that there would be countless names starting with Unun for no reason other than not assigning proper names once the elements are proven to exist.
@guoscape The naming conventions state the new elements must end in "ium", even though it is a halogen. Same goes for ununoctium, why it won't be called "ununocton", despite the fact it is a noble gas.
@SpaceTime4D you do need to remember that although, these rules are true, we haven't got to naming these ones, yet. They may well choose to let a couple of elements off in their case, i doubt it though :)
I've heard that once the threshold of an atomic weight of 200 is passed, all the elements become metastable. I've even heard fleeting reports of elements in the range of 450 discovered in a clandestine manner that are extremely stable and non radioactive. Recovered ET technology at the like...
I know the camera man likes to have a joke I think he should sneak into martins office and show us a video of all his crazy toys and experiments going on that we see in the background when martins talking.
@314fox413 Just because we haven't discovered an element in our own fairly limited environment doesn't mean these atoms don't form in the heart of stars or in other exotic environments. To be exact, 117 hasn't been -made- as such, a way to recreate the conditions for it's production has been found.
@davidtroub A Russian chemist called Mendeleev created the first version of the periodic table in which he classified elements. In doing so he noticed patterns, but in these patterns there were some gaps. Mendeleev had enough faith in his successors to discover these elements so he left those gaps, and substituted in placeholder names for the theoretical elements.
Question: have scientists already found (or trying to find) a usage for the new elements they've created, or are they concentrating mainly on creating new elements?
Given the convention of halogen names, I hope they give the new element name an "-ine" suffix, like "Schrodine" for Schrodinger, or "Heisine" for Heisenberg, etc.
@KyuubiNaruto1337XD These so called elements that are man made! (You can add protons forever I guess, given enough energy) Do they exist in nature or the Universe in general? No, so they are not elemental! These so called man made elements are very short lived, so what good are they?
@eageageageag They can. But what happens to the gold value? It will become very cheap (Like copper). Same for diamonds, they said it is impossible but... who knows?
48,716,359 years, 4 days, 7 hours, 22 minutes, and 4.8 seconds to be exact, assuming it never made one more or less than 2 million a second during that entire time...
im sorry to say but the groups in ur periodic table is wrong, hydrogen is in it's own unique group it isn't part of of the blue region of ur periodic table....
I watch every one I can - they are pitched just right for the novice chemist and Pete, Prof Polliakof and Neil are ace - Neil deserves a pay rise, particularly after the creme eggs.
@ThisIsClown I have a BS in chemistry (haha!), so I'm no expert, but I'd say we learn a lot about physics and physical chemistry from creating new elements. Of course they'll never be produced in sufficient amounts to make anything from them, but making them and deducing their atomic structure will help us learn about the behavior of the particles that compose atoms, which is pretty important! I'll look forward to @periodicvideos's answer as well. :)
@ClercLe they are still elements because they contain a different amount of protons like every other element.
if you add just 1 proton to hydrogen that is flammable and combustible to helium which non flammable (but it burns at some really high temperature) and is used in balloons and zeppelins.
I've watched all of the videos, and some multiple times. The one that sticks to my mind is the Zinc video where the prof says "if it wouldn't be for zinc we wouldn't be here to be bored about it"
Incredible. I remember learing the periodic table in jr. high and about a fourth of that bottom row was missing. Can't believe it's filled in. Time to add a new row? Geez.
ya i love professor Poliakoff he talks with his hands so much and keep making the videos i wouldn't know what to watch on youtube if it wasn't for these videos because there's so little real science videos on the internet and i appreciate it so much so please keep up the good work if i had money i would donate to the cause
@p6a9u1l42 I sometimes wonder if anyone has watched every video, besides me (who makes them) and Professor Poliakoff (who has definitely watched them all, except this one because he is off-line this week)
@KyuubiNaruto1337XD oh then do you fancy adding a top five list to the periodicvideos blog.. send me a message if you'd be interested and I'll explain more.
@periodicvideos I have a real favorite for the heavy elements and the other radioactive things, just because I know little about them, and I like to use this to find more.
this was the last piece to what is accepted as the periodic table.
for them to start a new row it would be very hard, when an atom has one electron in its outer shell (like all of group one(the first column)) then it becomes very unstable,
so for them to get the atoms to join together in such an unstable state it would be near impossible, but i noticed he was saying something about them finding a new way to do things or something, so we can only wait and see.
@glenwoofit n°119 will be an alkaline metal, under Francium. The creation of new elements does not stop, but becomes harder and harder to make less and less stable elements.
And by the way, for element 117, what about OSSium (some people that have seen that french movie may understand).
@piranha031091 I thought it would be in colum one under Francium but i wasn't sure. Wouldn't it also be highly radioactive aswell and decay really quickly, It begs the question what would be the point of spending all the money on research and production if it will have no use or is too highly radioactive to study.
@glenwoofit Yes, it will be really unstable. But the interest of the study of heavier and heavier elements is not in the uses of these elements, but the possible uses of the laws of physics we learn from them. A few centuries ago, nobody thought the discovery of electricity would ever be useful. It was just a strange phenomenon. Maybe heavier elements properties researches will learn us how to do antimatter, or lead us to the discovery of other energy sources, who knows?
@piranha031091 But why don't people make these elements by some "easier" elements like 238U+55Mn (from wiki) rather than using Bk which is a rare elements?
Also, don't elements become stable when they reach the Noble gas structure?
I see Uuo have a radioactive decay, even it's a noble gas
@Demonlogist I don't know why they they don't use more common elements to form these new ones like you suggested Uranium instead of Berkelium. Might have to do with the properties of the ion you want to accelerate toward to target.
As for radioactivity, these atoms can be stable in the sense that they don't want to bond and form molecules like the other noble gases,
@Sharkness77 but even when your atom has a full octet of electrons it can still be radioactive because the nucleus if very large and hard to keep together. Radon, the noble gas above Uuo is in fact radioactive at only 86 protons, so we would expect 118 to be even "more" radioactive
@Demonlogist : you would not get the same isotope, but an even more unstable isotope. Furthermore, calcium ions are lighter than manganese ions, and therefore easier to accelerate.
An the noble gas structure concerns only the electrons orbiting the nucleus. These gases are chemically stable because their electron layers are filled. But this has no influence at all on the nucleus, that determine their radioactive decay. For instance, Radon is an other radioactive noble gas.
@chentiangemalc, as I understand it, it's hypothesised that there will be an "island of stability" at higher atomic masses. Elements that don't form naturally, but for reasons of nuclear physics are stable. They would have properties unlike other lighter elements. Their density would make them better than any other substance at blocking radiation for instance.
@chentiangemalc No, but science isn't always about practicality - rather, it's more about pushing the boundaries of what we are capable of. Most practical uses from science do evolve from experiments such as this, believe it or not. For example, is there any practical use in studying black holes? Not really, but some of the science that evolves from the study evolves into practical uses of physics, math and ultimately engineering.
Wow, so that's why the elements around the bottom right have those wierd names. I thought it was just someone going "Well, we don't have anything there, so....Ununseptium? lol"
Ok, i created atomic number 119 in my backyard. what difference would it make if they came and verify my results? why do u just name the element before it is made? or is it just verified for the prizes?
You cannot derive any natural(or probable) patten of nuclear quantum states from artificially created nuclei. The systems are infused with highly unstable components by default. The stable structures that we know of are in of themselves not created in a vacuum but a yellow star. What I'm trying to say is these particle accelerators are expensive and nifty....but are never actually useful to better our understanding of anything.
@525047 Well some people believe that at some point heavier elements become stable again. It's worth trying right? :)
It's what they call Island of Stability.
Its all for science! And you are right, the natural element factories, Stars, Novas, Supernovas, easily create new heavy elements in large quantities, But the power of any of those events goes way beyond our imagination. So isn't it fun that we can do the same in a smaller scale? :D
@525047 Yes, particle accelerators are useless except for the massive amounts of information they've given us about the universe and how it works, like quantum mechanics, subatomic particles, relativistic effects on matter, the beginning of the universe, m-theory, the weak nuclear force, the strong nuclear force, the melding of forces from expansion and super-symmetry. No, particle accelerators don't help us understand anything. Sometimes it's not about practicality, but about what is possible
Uranium is unstable too. Lead is the heaviest stable element, meaning that its half life is determined only by the half life of the proton. Plutonium was probably produced in the supernova that made our uranium it has just decayed in the intervening billions of years like most of our uranium.
stardude692001 1 week ago
Stability depends on the Proton:Neutron ratio. The closer to 1:1 the more stable it will be.
Snazzydog333 1 week ago
Atoms with odd number are a lot less stable than even right? Shouldn't they have tried 116 or 118 first, or did they already create those?
KaslarProductions 2 weeks ago
@KaslarProductions U-235, U-238, U-239 -> Pt239?
SwingerJim 1 week ago
I vote Masterchiefium too :) plus there's loads of other Halo references too, group 7!!, in the HALOgens!!!!!
HELLJUMP3R7 3 weeks ago
Was that Lenny as the wallpaper?
soberek 1 month ago
unubtainium
tpioneer 1 month ago
Rumor has it there is a stable 117 isotope used to power flying saucers..
Ashtree81 1 month ago
@Ashtree81 If it's stable, then it can't power anything and is no use to anyone.
On an interesting note, atoms with an even number of protons are more stable and easy to create than those with odd numbers. So, Unbinilium (Element 120) is predicted to be easier to make than Ununennium (Element 119). For the same reasons that Uuo was discovered before Uus.
iElite6809 1 month ago
love how he takes time to explain. very nice, such videos make me happy.
linkuei83 1 month ago
Not found naturally anywhere in the universe really.
iasedu 2 months ago
Gk
Gokuium
element 9001
9001 protons & 9001 electrons
ITS OVER 9000!!!
applefan236 2 months ago
Actually probably something ending in "ine", so masterchiefine.
MrSpiffy24 3 months ago
It should be named DF Idontgiveafuckium
GodOfUnbelief 4 months ago
Why is everyone talking about "masterchiefium"?
WeaselWJ 5 months ago
@WeaselWJ Halo references.
TheRimDoctor 2 months ago
@WeaselWJ 117 is the tag for John-117 also known as the Master Chief, the protagonist from the Halo series of video games, novels and various other media.
JJAB91 2 months ago in playlist More videos from periodicvideos
Mc
MasterCheifium
72,000 protons & 1 neutron.
Hell yeah.
WowOmgStudios 6 months ago 19
@WowOmgStudios It would simultaneously explode.
Aviatorsmith 5 months ago
@WowOmgStudios This would probably cause quantum dripping and wouldn't be physically possible.
chocobofarmer2021 1 month ago
Nerd moment* Element 117 should be named Master-chiefium. =]
roadkillrabbit69 8 months ago
@roadkillrabbit69 Why not someone named a planetoid Xena.
"And the Geek shall inherit the earth"
Sunkincid 7 months ago
@roadkillrabbit69
I see what you did there.
ostrich760 5 months ago
Where can I get or print that periodic table showed at 1:42?
aMpeDDUp 9 months ago
Masterchiefium?
DerGeckarbor 9 months ago
I think they should call it subgenium. Praise "Bob" Dobbs!
mcgrewrich 10 months ago
What would this be used for though? i mean yeah its a great discovery for making new element by combining two elements but is it worth it ? it takes 6-7 months to make atleast 6 atoms worth of ununseptium. it doesnt seem worth to make this cause it takes to long. unlike 115 and 113 we dont have a full understanding of it.. like in the vid he said its unstable soo maybe we can find a way to use these for reactors. we should not use this untull we have a full understanding of it.
rougeninja99 10 months ago
i will rape the first person who dislikes this video.
PaladinswordSaurfang 11 months ago
interesting, until its discovery they were 117 elements discovered and only element 117 was missing!
darkunorthodox 11 months ago
but..y dont they make even heavier elements with like uranium and then smash it with plutonium or something like that?
XxWearsMexX 1 year ago
@XxWearsMexX cause it could cause a chemical reaction and it doesnt work like that. we would have to find its atomic number and locate the nucles then find how it was created to make more of it and make a nuclear reactor to combine this but it could take monts maybe years to make 1 atom of these two mixed. soo in a way u would have to clone uranuim then the reactor would be layered with plutonium and then they would pass and make one atom. if they do this it would be called element 119.thats why
rougeninja99 10 months ago
@XxWearsMexX cause that's called nuclear fission, and would be very bad. Also, Berkelium IS heavier than Uranium, so I don't see why we'd use Uranium?
trfinck 8 months ago
@XxWearsMexX
cause the heavier the element, the harder it is to make. and since 117 was a gap, they decided to try and make it, which meant getting elements with atomics numbers that add up to 117. i'm sure in the future there will be people trying to make even heavier elements, it's just those will be even harder.
khajiit92 8 months ago 3
117 is the number of the spartan in halo. Call the element spartanium
poomanonfire 1 year ago
@poomanonfire and theres 6 noble gasses like the 6 members of noble team
rhinogek 1 year ago
what will element 119 be called when it's discovered? ununeptium? man that'd be awesome, an alkaline metal more rare and more powerful than francium.
drewnickel 1 year ago
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drewnickel 1 year ago
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the generation of new matter ???
I think someone called Lavoisier said that "matter is neither created nor destroyed, only transformed"
little BIG error there :S...
SeTVs 1 year ago
@SeTVs i dont think he meant new matter as in making matter. it was just a figure of speech
pontypagla 1 year ago
@pontypagla well, i understood it like that
SeTVs 1 year ago
@pontypagla yeah, maybe it's like you say but if not there's a BIG error
SeTVs 1 year ago
The should name this element after one of the Japanese Iron Chefs.
AntiProtonBoy 1 year ago
It's always amazing to see what alchemy has developed to... ;0D
tmafkap 1 year ago
masterchiefium?
chillz27 1 year ago
@chillz27 Exactly what I was thinking, though "Spartanium" has more of a ring to it!
Flyntendo 1 year ago
@Flyntendo ah nice, i also though Sierrium but it think spartanium is better
chillz27 1 year ago
@chillz27 Sierrium is good too, but it could be a reference to any spartan. Perhaps Sierrium could be a stable isotope of the Spartanium element =)
Flyntendo 1 year ago
@Flyntendo ...as long as it's not Putinium...
tmafkap 1 year ago
@chillz27 Not that it fits in with 117, but also a suitable candidate could be Ununggoy?
Flyntendo 1 year ago
surely this means that theoretically, you can continue reacting heavy atoms with each other to create even heavier, new elements, and assuming you can continue fusing them before the elements half life, create a virtually unlimited amount of new elements.
brainiac777 1 year ago
@brainiac777 You could in theory, but as we get higher and higher in atomic number, the nuclei become ridiculously unstable, and put out more of a positive charge to repel other nuclei. Eventually, it becomes impossible to produce a heavier element. Right now, the upper limit of protons is estimated to be somewhere around 170.
SpaceTime4D 1 year ago
Lol sorry for being childish, but this is like Master Chief's number from HALO :D
germangman1 1 year ago
It sits below flourine, chorine, bromine , iodine and astatine. Why dont they name it Ununseptine?
guoscape 1 year ago
@guoscape ununseptium comes from latin means 117 and he said it in the video
gaswerti 1 year ago
@guoscape Because Unun starts all placeholder element names on the periodic table. If we did that there would be countless names starting with Unun for no reason other than not assigning proper names once the elements are proven to exist.
Squamata101 1 year ago
@guoscape The naming conventions state the new elements must end in "ium", even though it is a halogen. Same goes for ununoctium, why it won't be called "ununocton", despite the fact it is a noble gas.
SpaceTime4D 1 year ago
@SpaceTime4D you do need to remember that although, these rules are true, we haven't got to naming these ones, yet. They may well choose to let a couple of elements off in their case, i doubt it though :)
ilvmusiclol 1 year ago
@ilvmusiclol Yeah, I doubt they'll let any more rule-breaking in the naming conventions after the seaborgium incident....
SpaceTime4D 1 year ago
its french... Un is one sept is seven so Un Un Sept 117
LedKenji666 1 year ago
@LedKenji666
french is latin based
schmidtbag 1 year ago
i have a shirt just like that...same purple stripes and everything...
misaluvakatsa 1 year ago
at 4:49 you see the element 86 at the right, why is the "9,73†"
NLGuppy 1 year ago
@NLGuppy 503 likes 0 dislikes, its amazing
redice1024 1 year ago
@NLGuppy That is the density of the element. If you're comparing it to astatine - it has an unknown density.
Furiouslyfappin 1 year ago
I've heard that once the threshold of an atomic weight of 200 is passed, all the elements become metastable. I've even heard fleeting reports of elements in the range of 450 discovered in a clandestine manner that are extremely stable and non radioactive. Recovered ET technology at the like...
Ragnark1 1 year ago
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Now onto Period 8, 119 (Uue) Ununennium through 168 (Uho) Unhexoctium
OmuYasha1990 1 year ago
Now on to Period 8, (Uue) Ununennium-119 through (Uho) Unhexoctium-168
OmuYasha1990 1 year ago
Element 117 is about as exciting as thin air
strange6 1 year ago
I know the camera man likes to have a joke I think he should sneak into martins office and show us a video of all his crazy toys and experiments going on that we see in the background when martins talking.
pauldve 1 year ago
if you have to make an element, don't you think that it shouldn't count?
if it can't be found naturally and it's man-made, its not like, original like gold or silver or tin are.
therefore I think this is bullshit. just an opinion.
314fox413 1 year ago
@314fox413 Just because we haven't discovered an element in our own fairly limited environment doesn't mean these atoms don't form in the heart of stars or in other exotic environments. To be exact, 117 hasn't been -made- as such, a way to recreate the conditions for it's production has been found.
Naddig74 1 year ago
at least they didn't give it a more ridicilous name like einsteinium (yes this really exist!) or californium..
Shadowmov3r 1 year ago
Shiny but Dark hey?
why not call it "Vampiranium"
roidroid 1 year ago
No more new elements?? :''-(
Isn't it possible to build elements to infinity by fusion?
Btw. great job for every video!
klklzumzum 1 year ago
@klklzumzum yes we can make more elements, we'll go onto ununnillium- 119 on the theoretical G block
KyuubiNaruto1337XD 1 year ago
Anyone know how they knew to put it in that place on the Periodic Table before it was ever made?
davidtroub 1 year ago
@davidtroub A Russian chemist called Mendeleev created the first version of the periodic table in which he classified elements. In doing so he noticed patterns, but in these patterns there were some gaps. Mendeleev had enough faith in his successors to discover these elements so he left those gaps, and substituted in placeholder names for the theoretical elements.
I'm only 16, I don't know if that's right....
MaverickJack66 1 year ago
AMG MASTER CHIEF L0L HE HAS N0t B33n ind3nt1f13dl1l
FrostfeverEU 1 year ago
@CoolVideoGameVideos That is not the case if you find an, as mentioned in this video, island of stability.
Zeldakitteh 1 year ago
i heard the half life of Uus is really short, much shorter than a second, is that right?
Blinkwing 1 year ago
i watch all these vids too. =}
archaedemos 1 year ago
I got one atom of 117, i will sell it on ebay !
43932 1 year ago
intersting
TheM4Custom 1 year ago
how did they know that that could exist anyway if they had only just made them six atoms??
3eneboy 1 year ago
What's the use of creating these unstable elements, are we doing it because we can or is there a purpose behind it?
johnmacward 1 year ago
screensaver
B4TT3RY 1 year ago
what is the half life of element 117?
Medic1911 1 year ago
cool
zasx20 1 year ago
I always enjoy watching your videos.
Question: have scientists already found (or trying to find) a usage for the new elements they've created, or are they concentrating mainly on creating new elements?
denisfilming 1 year ago
Given the convention of halogen names, I hope they give the new element name an "-ine" suffix, like "Schrodine" for Schrodinger, or "Heisine" for Heisenberg, etc.
Periodicvideos rules! Keep it up! Thanks!
johnclavis 1 year ago
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@KyuubiNaruto1337XD These so called elements that are man made! (You can add protons forever I guess, given enough energy) Do they exist in nature or the Universe in general? No, so they are not elemental! These so called man made elements are very short lived, so what good are they?
ClercLe 1 year ago
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ClercLe 1 year ago
Very interesting stuff! keep it up! :D
asha123321 1 year ago
can you make more gold atoms the way he said they make high numbered atoms??
eageageageag 1 year ago 10
@eageageageag They can. But what happens to the gold value? It will become very cheap (Like copper). Same for diamonds, they said it is impossible but... who knows?
CzRZeromus 1 year ago
@eageageageag The people at GSI Germany (where they do similar work) told me they can make 2 million gold atoms per second in their collider!
That sounds amazing, but they said at that rate it would take something like 50 million years to make just one gram of gold.
periodicvideos 1 year ago 44
@periodicvideos
48,716,359 years, 4 days, 7 hours, 22 minutes, and 4.8 seconds to be exact, assuming it never made one more or less than 2 million a second during that entire time...
CanDriveSoon 1 year ago 13
@CanDriveSoon cool... but I think they would need to occasionally switch it off for maintenance!
periodicvideos 1 year ago 21
@periodicvideos All German made instruments are maintenance free!
And for instance that one is guaranteed to produce 1.63E32 atoms(+-1) of Gold!
8nwidth 1 year ago
@periodicvideos Who's going to pay the electricity bill ?
hoburame 1 year ago
@periodicvideos could they speed up the process some how?
patrickwellerwrites 8 months ago
@eageageageag Yes, but it costs more to make in energy than the gold is worth.
nonvisto 1 year ago
im sorry to say but the groups in ur periodic table is wrong, hydrogen is in it's own unique group it isn't part of of the blue region of ur periodic table....
EjPwned 1 year ago
I watch every one I can - they are pitched just right for the novice chemist and Pete, Prof Polliakof and Neil are ace - Neil deserves a pay rise, particularly after the creme eggs.
peakbusiness 1 year ago
call twentytenisum
PSNcrazy95 1 year ago
lol halo
Nogert 1 year ago
What can you do with this new element?
eujeeves 1 year ago
I was watching this video, and it's interesting, but my dad came in and after it finished asked me, "What's the point?"
I'm not a chemist so I gave him a bunch of BS, but do you think you there are any practical reasons for synthesizing element 117?
ThisIsClown 1 year ago
@ThisIsClown I have a BS in chemistry (haha!), so I'm no expert, but I'd say we learn a lot about physics and physical chemistry from creating new elements. Of course they'll never be produced in sufficient amounts to make anything from them, but making them and deducing their atomic structure will help us learn about the behavior of the particles that compose atoms, which is pretty important! I'll look forward to @periodicvideos's answer as well. :)
tenshirei 1 year ago
@ThisIsClown on the surface there may appear to be little use in this research but many great developments have come from very abstract research
tommatdan 1 year ago
sorry ThisIsClown
i typed a long and full answer but somthing has gone wron and just the start has posted and i cant delete it so just ignore
tommatdan 1 year ago
@ThisIsClown just to finish the periodic table, we gain a lot of information from these types of things.
Now onto Ununennium
KyuubiNaruto1337XD 1 year ago
I've watched all of these videos *and* I know Tom Lehrer's elements song off by heart. I'm not what that makes me ;)
mush01 1 year ago
What's the point of making these very transient higher elements. They are man made and therefore not true elements!
ClercLe 1 year ago
What do you mean? The way in which elements are made is not part of the definition of an element....
DSBrekus 1 year ago
@ClercLe they are still elements because they contain a different amount of protons like every other element.
if you add just 1 proton to hydrogen that is flammable and combustible to helium which non flammable (but it burns at some really high temperature) and is used in balloons and zeppelins.
KyuubiNaruto1337XD 1 year ago
I've watched all of the videos, and some multiple times. The one that sticks to my mind is the Zinc video where the prof says "if it wouldn't be for zinc we wouldn't be here to be bored about it"
epic
dc100GHz 1 year ago
I'm going to watch them all after my public exam
(Add target to ToDoList~)
Are there an actual pronounciation of these superheavy elements actually?
I personally pronounced it as un-un-septium, following the method how are they named temporarily
Demonlogist 1 year ago
Incredible. I remember learing the periodic table in jr. high and about a fourth of that bottom row was missing. Can't believe it's filled in. Time to add a new row? Geez.
GuppyPal 1 year ago
Masterchiefnium... :)
WantaFig 1 year ago
ya i love professor Poliakoff he talks with his hands so much and keep making the videos i wouldn't know what to watch on youtube if it wasn't for these videos because there's so little real science videos on the internet and i appreciate it so much so please keep up the good work if i had money i would donate to the cause
p6a9u1l42 1 year ago
hes lost alot of weight i love these videos i think ive watched almost all of them
p6a9u1l42 1 year ago
@p6a9u1l42 I sometimes wonder if anyone has watched every video, besides me (who makes them) and Professor Poliakoff (who has definitely watched them all, except this one because he is off-line this week)
periodicvideos 1 year ago
@periodicvideos
I have watched every element episode you have put up.
KyuubiNaruto1337XD 1 year ago
@KyuubiNaruto1337XD oh then do you fancy adding a top five list to the periodicvideos blog.. send me a message if you'd be interested and I'll explain more.
periodicvideos 1 year ago 4
@periodicvideos I have a real favorite for the heavy elements and the other radioactive things, just because I know little about them, and I like to use this to find more.
Could you do a video about quarks?
KyuubiNaruto1337XD 1 year ago
@periodicvideos ill try to catch up.... discovered this channel a week ago^^
domdadon018 1 year ago
@KyuubiNaruto1337XD
Hey Kyubi.
timelinemc 1 year ago
@timelinemc who b u?
KyuubiNaruto1337XD 1 year ago
Pornium or Nerdium
LechuCzechu 1 year ago
Hahahahahaha I like that
"We have to make more than six."
0lCerebratel0 1 year ago
Rickrollium?
MelleB90 1 year ago 2
It should be called difficult-to-utamium
TheBestNameEverMade 1 year ago
When we find 118 will they look for 119, Where will it go, in a new row or colum? Is their a point where the creation of elements stops?
glenwoofit 1 year ago
@glenwoofit we already have 118,
this was the last piece to what is accepted as the periodic table.
for them to start a new row it would be very hard, when an atom has one electron in its outer shell (like all of group one(the first column)) then it becomes very unstable,
so for them to get the atoms to join together in such an unstable state it would be near impossible, but i noticed he was saying something about them finding a new way to do things or something, so we can only wait and see.
lukacarroll 1 year ago
@glenwoofit
No there really is no way to say where creation stops
A better question would be "Why bother stopping?"
0lCerebratel0 1 year ago
@glenwoofit n°119 will be an alkaline metal, under Francium. The creation of new elements does not stop, but becomes harder and harder to make less and less stable elements.
And by the way, for element 117, what about OSSium (some people that have seen that french movie may understand).
piranha031091 1 year ago
@piranha031091 I thought it would be in colum one under Francium but i wasn't sure. Wouldn't it also be highly radioactive aswell and decay really quickly, It begs the question what would be the point of spending all the money on research and production if it will have no use or is too highly radioactive to study.
glenwoofit 1 year ago
@glenwoofit Yes, it will be really unstable. But the interest of the study of heavier and heavier elements is not in the uses of these elements, but the possible uses of the laws of physics we learn from them. A few centuries ago, nobody thought the discovery of electricity would ever be useful. It was just a strange phenomenon. Maybe heavier elements properties researches will learn us how to do antimatter, or lead us to the discovery of other energy sources, who knows?
piranha031091 1 year ago
@piranha031091 Yeah, Good point, Well made! I stand corrected... lol
glenwoofit 1 year ago
@piranha031091 But why don't people make these elements by some "easier" elements like 238U+55Mn (from wiki) rather than using Bk which is a rare elements?
Also, don't elements become stable when they reach the Noble gas structure?
I see Uuo have a radioactive decay, even it's a noble gas
Demonlogist 1 year ago
@Demonlogist I don't know why they they don't use more common elements to form these new ones like you suggested Uranium instead of Berkelium. Might have to do with the properties of the ion you want to accelerate toward to target.
As for radioactivity, these atoms can be stable in the sense that they don't want to bond and form molecules like the other noble gases,
Sharkness77 1 year ago
@Sharkness77 but even when your atom has a full octet of electrons it can still be radioactive because the nucleus if very large and hard to keep together. Radon, the noble gas above Uuo is in fact radioactive at only 86 protons, so we would expect 118 to be even "more" radioactive
Sharkness77 1 year ago
@Demonlogist : you would not get the same isotope, but an even more unstable isotope. Furthermore, calcium ions are lighter than manganese ions, and therefore easier to accelerate.
An the noble gas structure concerns only the electrons orbiting the nucleus. These gases are chemically stable because their electron layers are filled. But this has no influence at all on the nucleus, that determine their radioactive decay. For instance, Radon is an other radioactive noble gas.
piranha031091 1 year ago
@piranha031091 OH thank you very much and you clear my misconception on noble gas lol
Demonlogist 1 year ago
Anyway, when we are to name element 117, will it end in -ium, as in most of the elements, or -ine, like the other halogens? Just curious :P
bullets0000 1 year ago
@bullets0000 what about -gen? like hydrogen and oxygen?
TeoTheAwesome 1 year ago
very interesting, but are there any practical results of these synthetic elements?
chentiangemalc 1 year ago
@chentiangemalc, as I understand it, it's hypothesised that there will be an "island of stability" at higher atomic masses. Elements that don't form naturally, but for reasons of nuclear physics are stable. They would have properties unlike other lighter elements. Their density would make them better than any other substance at blocking radiation for instance.
theinquisitor 1 year ago
@chentiangemalc No, but science isn't always about practicality - rather, it's more about pushing the boundaries of what we are capable of. Most practical uses from science do evolve from experiments such as this, believe it or not. For example, is there any practical use in studying black holes? Not really, but some of the science that evolves from the study evolves into practical uses of physics, math and ultimately engineering.
tektitite 1 year ago
Wow, so that's why the elements around the bottom right have those wierd names. I thought it was just someone going "Well, we don't have anything there, so....Ununseptium? lol"
vortigauntfan 1 year ago
It's Doc Emmet's long lost brother
robdotcom71 1 year ago
unupsetium
jjkul1 1 year ago
Ok, i created atomic number 119 in my backyard. what difference would it make if they came and verify my results? why do u just name the element before it is made? or is it just verified for the prizes?
jjkul1 1 year ago
...applemacnium
meliefore 1 year ago
They have made 117. They previously made 118. Now where does element 119 fit into the table?
rjhrjh3 1 year ago
Wow can element 117 make zombies too?
Cubearmy 1 year ago
@Cubearmy They should call it zombium! =D
ElveeKaye 1 year ago
its master chief !!!!!!!!! holy shyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyt lol
mattkunq 1 year ago
Oh my god when I saw this I gasped! This is very awesome, but I think it should be called Ununseptine (halogen, of course) :D
PixlPianta 1 year ago
Seeing the completed periodic table makes me happy. I dont know why but it does...
myclockhasstopped 1 year ago 2
@myclockhasstopped me too :)
Xeidasx 1 year ago
So what if you blasted those calcium atoms in the presence of hydrogen ions? Would the molecule be stable?
Zantaer 1 year ago
You cannot derive any natural(or probable) patten of nuclear quantum states from artificially created nuclei. The systems are infused with highly unstable components by default. The stable structures that we know of are in of themselves not created in a vacuum but a yellow star. What I'm trying to say is these particle accelerators are expensive and nifty....but are never actually useful to better our understanding of anything.
525047 1 year ago
@525047 Well some people believe that at some point heavier elements become stable again. It's worth trying right? :)
It's what they call Island of Stability.
Its all for science! And you are right, the natural element factories, Stars, Novas, Supernovas, easily create new heavy elements in large quantities, But the power of any of those events goes way beyond our imagination. So isn't it fun that we can do the same in a smaller scale? :D
NAMLegolas 1 year ago 2
@525047 Yes, particle accelerators are useless except for the massive amounts of information they've given us about the universe and how it works, like quantum mechanics, subatomic particles, relativistic effects on matter, the beginning of the universe, m-theory, the weak nuclear force, the strong nuclear force, the melding of forces from expansion and super-symmetry. No, particle accelerators don't help us understand anything. Sometimes it's not about practicality, but about what is possible
tektitite 1 year ago
what's the half life of ununseptium? or does anyone even know?
danthemango 1 year ago
117??? as in the master chief ???from halo??
yoshikartegg 1 year ago
@yoshikartegg indeed, it will be highly lusturous and dark, like his armour...
thats a joke btw, but good job noticing it...
myclockhasstopped 1 year ago
Highly unstable element? Windowsvistanium.
kmohammad2 1 year ago 53
@kmohammad2 LOL That really made me laugh nice one
NAMLegolas 1 year ago