Element is an enigma of sorts. It was only added to the periodic table in , yet for decades it has attracted extra attention because of a supposed connection to extraterrestrial technology and alien lifeforms. Before we answer whether there is a connection, let's find out what element really is. As with all elements on the periodic table, the element's number corresponds to the number of protons in the nucleus of the element's atom. Gates says that element is an extremely rare element that's made one atom at a time in particle accelerators.
It exists for just a fraction of a second before it decays into another element. Instead of living for less than a second, they could exist for minutes, days or even years! That is long enough that we might be able to use them for practical applications," she says. Element was discovered in in Dubna, Russia at the Flerov Laboratory for Nuclear Reactions by a group of scientists led by nuclear physicist Yuri Oganessian.
The element was eventually named moscovium because Dubna is in Moscow. To make this element, the scientists accelerated ions of calcium 48Ca to around 10 percent of the speed of light and then bombarded americium Am with them.
Through this bombardment, they were able to successfully fuse the nuclei of Am and 48Ca atoms, says Gates. This process produced four atoms of moscovium. It took years for researchers to work out some of the details about moscovium. It wasn't until that Berkley Lab scientists figured out that the element's mass or atomic weight the total number of protons and neutrons in an atom was To nab this vital number, they repeated the process that the first discoverers used to pin down the element.
In doing so, they managed to produce roughly one atom of moscovium per day, and that atom was captured by an instrument called FIONA For the Identification Of Nuclide A , which to the untrained eye looks like a small metal bank vault. So far, moscovium doesn't have a practical use outside of scientific study.
Element was only discovered in , but it may sound familiar because the name has been around for decades in connection with UFOs , aliens and other related phenomena. We're referring to the long-lived story of Robert "Bob" Scott Lazar , who in went public with what he said was top-secret information about element Lazar claimed to be a former employee at Area 51, the famous and highly classified area of the Nevada Test and Training Range operated by the United States Air Force, where his job was to reverse-engineer crashed alien flying saucers.
He said that he'd personally worked with element , which was used to pilot alien spacecraft. Right: The thin housing of aluminum covers the silicon detection system green framed box developed by researchers at Lund University, Sweden to detect alpha particles.
The germanium detectors that detect photons gamma rays and X-rays face the windows of the housing unit, and are pulled back in the image to better see the silicon detection system. TASISpec uses a very thin 0. The housing windows green box in picture above covers the strips of silicon detectors that detect charged particles such alpha particles. Surrounding the box that houses the silicon detectors are germanium detectors silver metal objects pointing at window faces of the green box that detect gamma-rays and X-rays energetic photons.
During the experiment, the germanium detectors are very close to the windows of the housing unit. The scientists also measure how close in time the detectors detect an alpha decay and a subsequent energetic photon emitted as a new nucleus emits energy to go to a lower energy state. The Swedish group detected about 1. Again, they detected signatures of element a specific chain of alpha decays and some gamma and X-ray radiation.
Inside the meter-long linear accelerator at GSI, which accelerated the calcium ions used to produced element The quest continues to make super heavy elements and reach the Island of Stability. For now, we have a tiny bit more insight into the nuclear structure of super heavy elements, and better equipment to observe the different types of radiation they emit as they decay.
This will help scientists figure out what to keep and what to add to the different theoretical models of atomic nuclei, which Dr. These basic science experiments help theorists better predict the location of the Island of Stability. For now, that island is still out of reach. One of the difficulties is the need for more neutrons in the created nuclei, which experimentalists have not been able to do, yet. Another is the lifetimes of the elements on the Island of Stability are not really predicable at this time, and for any practical application these elements might have, they would need to hang around for hundred years or more.
Until then, science fiction continues to propose fantastic ideas for these new elements that can produce gravitons, power up weapons and time machines, release antimatter, cause disease, create zombies, and even speed up and alter evolutionary processes! From turning on a lamp in your home to running solar panels, batteries play a large role in our everyday lives. The black hole selected for imaging resides in the center of the Messier 87 galaxy, 55 million light years away quintillion miles away.
High energy particle physics experiments in recent past have brought into question parts of the model currently used in particle physics. Element and the Island of Stability September 24, We may have a new element to add to the periodic table!
Image Credit: InvaderXan via Wikimedia Commons Between the experimental results published in August 1 and those from , 2 there should be enough evidence to forever place element on the periodic table, with a new, permanent name. Creating Element To make element , scientists have to smash very high-speed calcium ions, which have 20 protons, into a target with americium atoms, which have 95 protons.
Rudolph, D. The two actual isotopes of Element produced by this reaction, Mc and Mc contain neutrons, shy 11 neutrons from the magic number of , and neutrons, shy 12 neutrons from the magic number of , respectively.
The nuclear configuration of this isotope of Element would be identical to the nuclear configuration of the only known stable isotope of Element 83, Bismuth, 83 Bi , containing the magic number of neutrons, except that the Element isotope would have one more energy level completely filled with protons and neutrons. The 83rd proton for Bismuth is a lone proton in the 7th proton energy level and the th proton for Element is the lone proton in the 8th proton energy level.
This stable isotope of Bismuth, Element 83, has very unique gravitational characteristics. The Element was provided to the scientists at S4 in the form of discs. The Element discs were fused to form a single cylinder. The Element cylinder is then turned on a mill to form a cone. The Element cone is sliced to extract a wedge out of its center.
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