Hope all of you are doing well. Some of you may have heard about the NASA announcement about the Mono Lake bug that can substitute arsenic for phosphorus in...
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vanalumerb
Dec 3, 2010 6:20 pm
It is good to know that at least some bugs have backbones. NASA is now in a business to make some people feel good about themselves. Space exploration is their...
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JessT
yahganlang
Dec 3, 2010 6:25 pm
Still, it is interesting that this works at all. We have good numbers of substitutions that will work in terms of metals in metalloenzymes, alkali and alkaline...
Did they call it "new periodic table"? It is not new. Its layout is at least 105 years old. It is representative of inertia in science. All they did, updated...
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JessT
yahganlang
Jan 3, 2011 6:16 pm
Happy 2011! I've been delving a bit again into nuclear magic, and have come up with a number of new things, some of which I'll post later. For now, I just want...
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Valery
vanalumerb
Jan 3, 2011 7:42 pm
Jess, I would like to add that Fe, that forms group with Ru, Os and Hs, although not quite magic, has extremely stable nucleus and serves as the border line...
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JessT
yahganlang
Jan 3, 2011 7:49 pm
Yes, 54 is Xe. I've jumbled elements symbols vs. at.no.'s more than once. Like HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey, 'my mind is going'. Please stop pulling memory...
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JessT
yahganlang
Jan 4, 2011 5:22 am
By the way, Larry, good catch on the group membership. I hadn't any inkling when I first posted. I'm still examining proton and neutron counts in stable nuclei...
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JessT
yahganlang
Jan 17, 2011 7:30 pm
So, I've desperately been wracking my brains trying to work out a system for the higher Fib-like series within the periodic system, trying this and that, every...
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Valery
vanalumerb
Jan 17, 2011 8:33 pm
Great observation, Jess. Just want to clarify that Jess is referring not to the Atomic Numbers, but to the "Distances" from the ends of the periods of Janet's...
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yahganlang
Jan 18, 2011 4:54 pm
I know that for myself, having the reference already to tetrahedral numbers and the Phi-convergent series helped prime me to look for or notice such patterns...
Hi, The Periodic System of the Elements and Periodic Tables based on it are still the base for research and systematization. That this is relevant is my New...
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JessT
yahganlang
Mar 21, 2011 8:55 pm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314152919.htm So, which quantum number codes for antennae? JT...
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Valery
vanalumerb
Mar 22, 2011 3:04 pm
Classification of minerals, plants and animals predates the classification of the chemical elements by 100 years or so. Idea of classification of chemical...
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Richard
chemguy777
Mar 24, 2011 9:54 pm
Hi Jess The following is a little off topic however I hope it is of interest to the group. The speed of light in a vacuum (c) is unique, it is assumed to be...
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JessT
yahganlang
Mar 24, 2011 10:02 pm
Who can say what is still yet to be discovered? The other day people announced a more precise value for the Hubble expansion of the universe- 73.8 (+/-2.4)...
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JessT
yahganlang
Apr 5, 2011 5:56 pm
The nuclear shell filling pattern can be idealized as blocks somewhat analogous to what is seen in the electronic system, but organized differently. Thus...
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jess tauber
yahganlang
Apr 6, 2011 8:54 pm
This is the Leftmost-Leftmost system, which is that of most of the magic numbers that we usually think of in the nuclear system: 258- 184= 74= 72+2 184- 126=...
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Richard
chemguy777
Apr 12, 2011 7:01 pm
Hi Jess. I am a little off topic again. The Einstein Field Equation (EFE) may be simplified. A tensor may be substituted by a ratio of stress and a scalar may...
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JessT
yahganlang
Apr 20, 2011 3:07 pm
Rationalization of double triangular number differences between idealized orbital filling benchmark numbers: Level 0 [__0 diff.2 Level 1 [__2___0 diff 6 Level...
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V."Larry" T...
orahct@...
Apr 20, 2011 6:04 pm
I have a good news to report regarding ADOMAH Periodic Table. 35,000 copies in English and French. Please, see email below from publisher. Best Regards, Valery...
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JessT
yahganlang
May 20, 2011 10:02 pm
Ok, been working on more atomic relations. On the Wiki page for the Fine Structure Constant ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_structure_constant ) one finds...
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JessT
yahganlang
May 29, 2011 11:00 pm
I was just looking over Eric Scerri's piece 'How good is the quantum mechanical explanation for the periodic system' ...
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JessT
yahganlang
Jul 4, 2011 6:07 am
http://news.yahoo.com/huge-rare-earth-deposits-found-pacific-report-000045557.html Guess China ain't gonna corner the market after all... Jess Tauber ...
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Melinda Green
xyzrgb
Jul 4, 2011 9:09 am
Wow, that's quite a news story! It's amazing to me that just about everything about it is positive. Not so much for poor China though as you point out. It also...
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Richard
chemguy777
Nov 12, 2011 5:14 am
Hi Jess Sorry I have not joined you for a while. I had a stroke a few months ago, however I am recovering now. The following is a little off topic however I...
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JessT
yahganlang
Nov 12, 2011 5:19 am
Hoping for a speedy healthy outcome. I've had some neurological issues myself, mostly having to do with hearing and vision, but nothing permanent so far....
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Richard
chemguy777
Aug 18, 2012 5:22 pm
Hi Jess- Tetrahedrons do have interesting applications. The geometry of space-time (Schwarzschild metric) may be represented as a tetrahedron. Please see my...
