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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California has now identified with certainty the heaviest element known to science...

The new element, Pelosium (PL), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons...

Pelosium is inert, and has no charge and no magnetism. Nevertheless, it can be detected because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A tiny amount of Pelosium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete. Pelosium has a normal half-life of 2 years. It does not decay, but instead undergoes a biennial reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. Pelosium mass will increase over time, since each reorganization will promote many morons to become isodopes....

This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Pelosium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass.When catalyzed with money, Pelosium becomes Senatorium, an element that radiates just as much energy as Pelosium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons....

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I heard that they had actually discovered this element a while ago and wanted to name it after Bush, but the atomic symbol 'W' was already in use.
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Well played, sir. :thumb:
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35564438/ns ... e-science/

The heaviest element yet known is now officially named "Copernicium," after the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.

Copernicium has the atomic number 112 — this number denotes the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom. It is 277 times heavier than hydrogen, making it the heaviest element officially recognized by international union for chemistry IUPAC.
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grizzaholic wrote:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35564438/ns ... e-science/

The heaviest element yet known is now officially named "Copernicium," after the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.

Copernicium has the atomic number 112 — this number denotes the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom. It is 277 times heavier than hydrogen, making it the heaviest element officially recognized by international union for chemistry IUPAC.
I like how we create these elements and they are only stable for a fraction of a second. A while back I watched a show about scientists creating elements; one of the elements, which hasn't been created yet, might be stable. I think it was element 118 and there was something about the electron shell configuration that gave scientists hope that once they created it; it would last.
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Pelosium, maybe Dr.Octavius could use some of that in his Fusion reactions
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grizzaholic wrote:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35564438/ns ... e-science/

The heaviest element yet known is now officially named "Copernicium," after the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.

Copernicium has the atomic number 112 — this number denotes the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom. It is 277 times heavier than hydrogen, making it the heaviest element officially recognized by international union for chemistry IUPAC.
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