/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8597015
I think it should be Banium because that's a big atom 4 μ

>>8597015
We should name it "Niggerium", because it's completely useless and cost the taxpayer a lot of money

>>8597015
Has it actually been synthesized?

Wildbergerium because elements with atomic numbers greater than 118 don't exist

>>8597015
Honestly, who gives a shit about those new elements anyway? I mean, we get it, you can synthesize all kind of shit, but it's not like we learned anything at all from this in the last decades. It's the same procedure, over and over.

but all those fancy synthetic elements are useless garbage.

>>8597064
>>8597040
>>8597072

>it's not like we learned anything
>useless
that's not true at all. we've learned alot from synthetic elements; how to utilise nuclear energy, the effects of nuclear weapons, how the nucleus works at higher nucleon counts. we've even done actual chemistry with these elements. just because they don't have any ubiquitous roles in society doesn't mean they are pointless and irrelevant. they're no more "useless" than, say, scandium or ruthenium, elements used for basically nothing.

>>8597154
Good on you trying to educate the ignorant

>>8597034
Fuckin kekd

>>8597015

Whoever first synthesises it gets to name it, this is the convention and I see no reason to deviate from it in this case.

>>8597169
i'm sure the discoverers would be open to suggestions, no?

>>8597015
4chanium. First element with a number in the name.

Why do we even bother with these meme elements? They don't exist in nature and we just create single atoms which exist for fraction of second.

>>8597418
Read the thread you stupid American.

>>8597154
Except that ruthenium is very important for Ni-base superalloys used in aircraft turbines and I'm sure Scandium is also useful somewhere.

>>8597064
>>8597072
>>8597418
>science

>>8597513
they do have their niche uses, to be sure (just some examples i plucked from my ass). my point is that superheavy elements have their own niche that only they can fill

>>8597040
jej

>>8597034
What did he mean by this?

>>8597015
Bitches can't even handle all of those electrons