{"id":720,"date":"2006-10-17T09:33:27","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T09:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/17\/element-116-and-118\/"},"modified":"2006-10-17T09:33:27","modified_gmt":"2006-10-17T09:33:27","slug":"element-116-and-118","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/17\/element-116-and-118\/","title":{"rendered":"Element 116 and 118"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aip.org\/pnu\/2006\/split\/797-1.html?source=rsspnu\">AIP<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/10\/17\/science\/17heavy.html?ex=1318737600&#038;en=211f076c64f63e79&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss\"><cite>New York Times<\/cite><\/a> are reporting that elements 116 and 118 have been discovered by a collaboration between Russian and American scientists working at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna. This is the second time it&#8217;s been announced that element 118 has been seen, as a previous &#8220;discovery&#8221; turned out to be fraudulent, but everybody who comments in those articles says that they&#8217;re confident this one is the real thing.<\/p>\n<p>The elements in question, which nobody has attempted to attach names to yet (have they learned nothing from the Planet Wars? Name one after a tv character, and you&#8217;ll get all sorts of free publciity&#8230;), only last for about a millisecond, and is made by slamming calcium atoms into californium atoms at a fair fraction of the speed of light. Nobody&#8217;s going to be doing chemistry with these guys any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s really pretty muc all there is to say about these articles. If you only read one, read the <cite>Times<\/cite> article, which has extremely silly computer-generated graphics purporting to show the new element travelling through the accelerator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both the AIP and the New York Times are reporting that elements 116 and 118 have been discovered by a collaboration between Russian and American scientists working at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna. This is the second time it&#8217;s been announced that element 118 has been seen, as a previous &#8220;discovery&#8221; turned&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/17\/element-116-and-118\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Element 116 and 118<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiment","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}