I was reading online Linus Pauling's notebooks (see http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/rnb/), and was particularly interested in sections...
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rihanij
Nov 9, 2010 3:28 am
May I direct you to this new paper <http://www.chem.helsinki.fi/~pyykko/pekka/PT.pdf> by Pekka Pyykko, Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki,...
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JessT
yahganlang
Nov 9, 2010 3:32 am
Thanks for this- very interesting. I wonder whether any of these elements, however, can exist in the real world. I'd been in touch recently with Prof. Pyykko-...
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Valery
vanalumerb
Nov 9, 2010 5:44 pm
Good exercise in extrapolation. How is it related to reality? Elements 139 and 140 fitted between 164 and 169 would not make Mendeleev happy. Old rule of...
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Valery
vanalumerb
Nov 10, 2010 6:21 pm
How about extrapolation? On one hand author of the article conducted extensive Dirac-Fock calculations and extended periodic table beyond element 118. Looking...
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JessT
yahganlang
Nov 10, 2010 7:51 pm
On the other hand things start to go haywire already before element 120, it would seem. And, for those of you into pattern pressure, it looks as if left-hand...
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Valery
vanalumerb
Nov 10, 2010 10:19 pm
How La can be in f-block when it has no f-electrons in ground state. Not a single f-electron! How about placement of He in conventional PT? What is it doing in...
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JessT
yahganlang
Nov 10, 2010 10:33 pm
In linguistics, there is a well-known phenomenon of 'metathesis', where part of some word becomes switched positionally with the rest, with other nonaffixal...
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Jeries Rihani
rihanij
Nov 11, 2010 8:59 pm
The folowing paper: "Relativistic Effects in Limiting the Atomic Number of Superheavy Elements" by Dr. F. W. Giacobbe,...
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JessT
yahganlang
Dec 2, 2010 7:25 pm
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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Valery
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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jess tauber
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...
