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When Will We Reach the End of the Periodic Table?
Smithsonian ^
| 19 Jan, 2016
| Devin Powell
Posted on 02/02/2016 4:29:12 PM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
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02/02/2016 4:31:35 PM PST
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struggle
To: MtnClimber
Uranium is the heaviest naturally occurring atom. The heavier atoms have to be created artificially and are so unstable they don't last long. The Protons in the nucleus repel each other.
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02/02/2016 4:31:40 PM PST
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MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: MtnClimber
For most of us it is the last day of high school.
To: MtnClimber
Bad place to go for any understanding of any subject - I canceled my subscription due to the total hype of the misleading headlines, the bad writing, lack of images of subject and so on. Mostly a lefty screed for science hype - climate change and the like.
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02/02/2016 4:33:13 PM PST
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PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: MtnClimber
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02/02/2016 4:33:26 PM PST
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soycd
To: struggle
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02/02/2016 4:33:28 PM PST
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Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: MtnClimber
Like when we reach the end of the internet and go hurling into the sun ...
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02/02/2016 4:38:18 PM PST
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SkyDancer
("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
To: MtnClimber
The heavier atoms have to be created artificially and are so unstable they don't last long.Not here.
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02/02/2016 4:39:50 PM PST
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gundog
(Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
To: SunkenCiv
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02/02/2016 4:40:51 PM PST
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Thunder90
(All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
To: SkyDancer
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02/02/2016 4:41:46 PM PST
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: MtnClimber
I would suppose that theoretically there would be none.
Practically, however, there has got to be a limit as those heaviest atoms are extremely unstable and there is probably a point where the instability precludes an chance that the atom would hold together at all.
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posted on
02/02/2016 4:46:30 PM PST
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metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: soycd
There are no laws of infinity. Infinity is a mathematical concept that does not exist in the time and space that we call the universe.
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02/02/2016 4:50:43 PM PST
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D Rider
To: metmom; MtnClimber
I would expect that these heaviest atoms don’t have a problem existing for the long term at the core of a sufficiently massive star.
To: MtnClimber
Metalpause. There may be hot flashes, though.
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02/02/2016 4:53:27 PM PST
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Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: D Rider
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02/02/2016 4:54:57 PM PST
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soycd
To: D Rider
Our inability to comprehend infinity is not proof it doesn’t exist (is that three negatives ?).
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02/02/2016 4:59:37 PM PST
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UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: Gen.Blather
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posted on
02/02/2016 5:00:46 PM PST
by
antidisestablishment
(If Washington was judged with the same standard as Sodom, it would not exist.)
To: MtnClimber
Just as Pluto is not a planet, these man-made transient atoms are not elements.
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posted on
02/02/2016 5:00:48 PM PST
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Rio
(Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
To: The KG9 Kid
You can’t fly apart if there is no space to fly apart in .
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02/02/2016 5:02:09 PM PST
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UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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