True story- when they originally named element 118 Livermorium (after Livermore, California) a friend of mine said "Why did they make the symbol Lv and not Li?". I replied, "I think the symbol | Li | is already taken by a somewhat lighter element…"
EDIT: OK, not to be too flippant, but most of the stuff higher up in that table is stuff I can see, touch, taste, etc, as ill-advised as it would be to do that with appreciable amounts some of those elements (or even be in the same room*). They're sensible in the literal sense. But these new elements? It seems if one were to commit the resources to make a sensible amount, it'd all decay away before anybody had a chance to sense it through any interaction more direct than a computer spreadsheet.
(… he types into an internet blog comment…)
*Kinda wish I was alive back in the days when nobody knew how bad an idea it was to play with liquid mercury.
No wonder I've been feeling out of my element.
Two or more could compound the problem.
Told my dad about this. He asked "do you want to see my periodic table with them already on it?" I can't catch him off-guard on anything.
Awesome woman has awesome parent. I am not surprised.
I didn't come here to be insulted, but I guess that's one of the many perks involved.
True story- when they originally named element 118 Livermorium (after Livermore, California) a friend of mine said "Why did they make the symbol Lv and not Li?". I replied, "I think the symbol | Li | is already taken by a somewhat lighter element…"
cantbebotheredium
EDIT: OK, not to be too flippant, but most of the stuff higher up in that table is stuff I can see, touch, taste, etc, as ill-advised as it would be to do that with appreciable amounts some of those elements (or even be in the same room*). They're sensible in the literal sense. But these new elements? It seems if one were to commit the resources to make a sensible amount, it'd all decay away before anybody had a chance to sense it through any interaction more direct than a computer spreadsheet.
(… he types into an internet blog comment…)
*Kinda wish I was alive back in the days when nobody knew how bad an idea it was to play with liquid mercury.
They have a longer half-life than the Browns' playoff hopes had this year…