Scientists have found a new element that has 115 protons in it. That is so awesome!! It can fill in the space between the elements that have 114 and 116 which were only found last year. So it is amazing how the scientists where able to find the 115th element, which has not been named yet, in a year. The element was first found 10 years ago by a Russian and an American scientist. But the people who decide what goes in the periodic table said that they had to wait for another scientist to do the same experiment to officially publish the element. A Swedish University, in August, finally announced that they had duplicate the experiment . The scientist said that they also saw the element 113 when they preformed the experiment, which was said to have existed before. They created the element by shooting calcium into a target that contained americium atoms and then the calcium and americium merged at one point and created the element 115 but it fell apart in less than a second. They were able to determine that the element existed from the debris it left and they also took an x-ray while the element was decaying, which showed that element had 115 protons once again. Some of the elements on the periodic table are man made and they are still have not put the 115th element up yet. Why not? Two groups of scientists have already found it so why is it not up yet.? I think that they should just put the element up after all the hard work that people did to find it after 10 years!! what if it gets rejected I would feel so bad. But anyway it is good that they found it. Maybe some day scientists can find an element that has 200 protons, if that is possible.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/28/science/made-in-lab-fleeting-element-may-join-periodic-table.html?ref=chemistry&_r=0
No comments:
Post a Comment