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There's a new element.Number 112 in the periodic table. It is super heavy so what would you name it? I go for Bluewhalium.
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That's the second time today you've replied to me using the word cuntwhats up?
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Playground teasing.You need to pull her hair on Saturday.
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Cawl - King Of Wales, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 10:50,
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Good luck, it's a little short right now(
Mary's sexbox explosion makes me The Jesus, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 10:50,
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Hmmm...He can use a stick with super glue on.
Or salad tongs.
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Cawl - King Of Wales, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 10:51,
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I have a feelingthat she's going to spend the whole bash punching me in the arm and running away.
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I never run after punching someoneIt's too much entertainment to see their face screw up in pain.
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Mary's sexbox explosion makes me The Jesus, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 10:55,
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'til you end up kissing wildlyBehind the pub.
My advice, and trust me on this one, is to clean your teeth that day.
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Cawl - King Of Wales, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 10:55,
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Congratulations!It's always a pleasure to meet a fellow gentleman.
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Cawl - King Of Wales, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 10:58,
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Well, yes.The chances of that are lower. This IS the internet.
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Cawl - King Of Wales, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 11:06,
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Why don't the two of you get it on?Saves me the bother of having to fix you up?
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Mary's sexbox explosion makes me The Jesus, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 11:40,
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You can make almost anything sound funnierby adding the "Widde" prefix to it.
(cf a piss-take in Private Eye some years ago where Ann went around canvassing Tory votes in a vehicle known as the "Widdiecopter.")
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She should be PM.(
idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Thu 11 Jun 2009, 19:05,
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Dunno if it's metallic or not :pAs an aside, there used to be a band called "Osmium".
"Because it's the heaviest metal, lol!"
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Cawl - King Of Wales, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 10:49,
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Element 112 is likely to be metallicBut scientists are not yet sure that osmium is the heaviest metal, as it's a close run thing with iridium.
It's difficult to make a large enough and pure enough sample of each to measure their densities properly.
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K2k6 has been using boiling nitric acid, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 10:53,
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Yay, info!Thanks for that!
Isn't iridium used in pens and stuff?
Or is it a very low-percentage alloy?
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Cawl - King Of Wales, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 10:54,
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Iridiumis used in pen nibs because it's so hard. But it's not necessarily very pure. It's also very expensive.
To do accurate measurements, you need something like 99.9999% purity, which is very difficult to achieve.
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K2k6 has been using boiling nitric acid, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 10:56,
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Hmmm...Would a sword made of iridium keep a good edge?
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Cawl - King Of Wales, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 10:57,
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I've been reading about this...Hardness is not the same as strength. Or not the same thing as toughness...hang on a minute...
Oh, that's right - something can be hard, but not very strong, if, say, it's brittle. Iridium is probably used in pens because it keeps its edge, but is quite brittle.
I don't really know - try slashing someone's face with your pen and see how the nib fares...
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Hmmm...Incredibly well, in fact.
He's now in the back of an ambulance.
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Cawl - King Of Wales, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 11:03,
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*crap joke alert*Well, an iridium-edged sword might be a fearsome weapon. But the iridium tipped pen will still be mightier.
...Still, it's obviously done the do on him - what state is your pen in?
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Yes it would keep a sharp edgebut I don't know about its brittleness, as Mr Crow said above. So it may lose its edge if you use it, just by chipping bits off. Also, it would be an extremely heavy and unwieldy sword.
A hardened steel sword with an iridium edge might be a good compromise.
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K2k6 has been using boiling nitric acid, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 11:03,
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They use iridiumin sunglasses lenses too for some reason
doesn't it only come from meteorites?
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Vipros looks like he stands on kids' toys, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 11:08,
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I don't know, but it's a nice idea"Behold, I write letters with the AWESOME POWER OF METEORITES! ROOOOAAAR!"
*scribble-scribble-scribble*
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Not all of it,but a lot of it does. There's an anomalously rich layer of it in the earth's crust, which has been found by geologists to coincide with the period when the dinosaurs were wiped out. This is consistent with a globally significant meteorite impact at that time.
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K2k6 has been using boiling nitric acid, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 12:13,
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TediumiumWhat? I'm studying physics... these things always take a while to get named, it could happen...
EDIT: wait a sec, 112 was made in 1996... Its just that the results have only been confirmed now (putting it up for official naming).
Its also not the heaviest so far found, that goes to 118
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Temporary name.UnUnBium. from the latin numbers. How droll. Needs more imagination. 7\10.
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How about a simple one?b3tium.
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K2k6 has been using boiling nitric acid, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 10:54,
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It shows you how out of date I amMy periodic table only goes up to 103!
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I'm not sure any of the rest have been discovered in natureThey're mostly ones that've been created in particle accelerators.
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Papa Noel is looking forward to filling your stockings, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 10:59,
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YeahEven Lawrencium262 (103) decays rapidly, I'de hate to think what the half-life of anything bigger would be.
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There's reckoned to bean island of stability at about 116, IIRC.
That is, nuclear physicists predict that element would not decay rapidly. May be wrong with the number though.
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K2k6 has been using boiling nitric acid, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 11:11,
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Its around 112, near enough...And while things there decal less rapidly than expected, the half lives are still in the second range (rather than the millisecond range predicted). Uub 285 has a half life of half a minute according to wiki, and thats the most stable by at least a factor of 10 after meinerium (109)
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AlfThere are enough silly names in the periodic table already so I'd keep it simple and just call it Alf.
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