Now we have a new element to kick around...

[CK_John]

Atoms of a new super-heavy element - the as-yet-unnamed element 117 - have reportedly been created by scientists in Germany, moving it closer to being officially recognized as part of the standard periodic table.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2014/0502/Scientists-create-new-element

[Xipe Totec]

1. Unobtainium? nt

[hfojvt]

3. cyclotronium?

I like yours better though.

[FSogol]

2. Woot! Let the partying begin!

[MineralMan]

4. Interesting. I remember the periodic table from the early 1950s.

Over the years, I've watched new elements being added to it from time to time. If I remember correctly, the first periodic table I ever saw ended with element 101 or 102. It's been interesting to read about new elements here and there through the years since then.

[Warpy]

5. Boondoglium

They talk about how many protons they can cram into a nucleus, how high that number could be. Well, I think they found it a long time ago, since all of the exotic stuff they've created in labs decays within milliseconds, most within nanoseconds. The only place this stuff could live for seconds, maybe minutes, is inside an evolving supernova.

[FiveGoodMen]

9. I read that the new one has a half-life of 320 days

[jeff47]

11. No, one of the elements they used to create it does.

They smashed two elements together to get this new stuff. The larger of those two has a half-life of 320 days.

[intaglio]

6. I'd suggest you don't kick it

Not if you want to keep your toes.

[NV Whino]

7. oneseventeenium

[shenmue]

8. The periodic table of the elements!

[derby378]

10. Sarahpalinium!

For all the newbies...

Physicists at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, operating on a grant from the Republican National Committee, have discovered the heaviest element yet known to science.

The new element, dubbed sarahpalinium (Sp), exhibits a nucleus with properties that have yet to be discovered in any other atomic nucleus, including the presence of two new hadrons: youbetchatrons, which are made up primarily of charm quarks; and nordstrons, which appear to be made up of strange quarks which constantly interact with campaign funds. These hadrons, which have not yet been counted, are buffered in the nucleus by one neutron, one lieutenant neutron, 20 deputy lieutenant neutrons, 40 assistant deputy lieutenant neutrons, and 15,000 employee neutrons, giving sarahpalinium an atomic mass of no less than 15,062. These hadrons are held together by elementary forces called morons which occasionally emit radiation in the form of alpha, beta, and inwhatrespectcharlie particles.

Sarahpalinium is orbited by an indeterminate number (see below) of lepton-like particles called peons, with only one peon occupying the innermost shell (the "Todd shell&quot and exercising an unusual influence over the sarahpalinium nucleus. Beyond the Todd shell is a shell with five peons (the "Track/Bristol/Willow/Piper/Trig shell&quot , and a third shell with 9,780 peons (the "Wasilla shell&quot .

Sarahpalinium impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A tiny amount of sarahpalinium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second to take as long as four years to complete.

Sarahpalinium is inherently unstable, possessing a half-life that will expire on July 26, 2009. At this point, sarahpalinium will either wink out of existence or develop a controversial fourth peon shell that some physicists claim may contain all remaining matter in four-dimensional spacetime, which means that the very universe may indeed revolve around sarahpalinium.

[BrotherIvan]

12. Benghazium

[struggle4progress]

13. The Elements

[BB1]

14. Since they made it in Germany...

Belgium?