As a student of Japanese, I can think of no better name than Nihonium. Although Japanium would've been cool, would be nice to finally have a "J" in the periodic table!
Dear Prof. Poliakoff I just want to thank you for your sharing some of your knowledge with us and explain it in such a great way not just breaking iy down for us without the lifetime studying of it like yourself but your humbleness and coolness that you have. To me you are a treasure of knowledge and charisma 1 in a billion how i wish i could have been your student surely you would have changed my life more than you have already I THANK YOU SO MUCH SIR!
Interestingly, Japan in Japanese (Nihon) is 日本, however, when it is written as the element it is ニホニウム, with the first two characters being the same as in the country name, but they're written differently because the element name is a scientific word which is written in the same alphabet that foreign words are written in.
***** I wager 10 dollars that row 8 does not exist. We have pushed the boundaries so far getting to 118 obtaining one atom that immediately decomposes into daughters. Trust me. Mendeleev's table is complete. As for isotopes it is not but base elements.. 118 is the Holy Grail. Maybe I'm wrong. Got ten bucks on the line now. :)
Island of Stability though, once they get large enough to form a new electron shell they might be stable enough to last years, even millennia. They would have nuclei's in the 138-150 range though.
"I'm sure I pronounced that incorrectly," Hahaha, actually it's perfect. Japanese is not very hard to pronounce, only stress (which English speakers often add where it shouldn't be) really ever messes it up. But Nihon is exactly as the professor said it.
I know this comment is old but I just want to say that was a really nice and thoughtful of you, both to say the professor was correct and also helps other people who might not know, so thanks 😊
AFX paladin He said he didn't like the name Americium because it referred to a country (America/USA), but is okay with Nihonium being named after Japan.
Thank you for this insightful video with the helpful analysis, including the benefits of this research. Nippon is more or less the formal reading of the name of Japan, both names being readings of the characters 日本. Interestingly, towards the end of the video, (8:35) the element is labelled in katakana as ニホニウム or nihoniumu, which seems like it implies a reading of nihoni for 日本 were it to be rendered with kanji. Perhaps it is for convenience of reading, which might also explain why it's not, say, nipponium. Or perhaps because nipponium has already been used in the past, which a quick google search seems to indicate. I'm by no means an expert or native speaker, but that's how I understand it. The pronunciation in the video of the element names seems close enough to me. Far better than carry-oki or saki or tokio as these words are commonly said. None of this is probably very important but a cursory search didn't reveal any other discussion on the name itself.
On the island of stability: I recall that there was talk of it thirty years ago living toward the end of the transition columns (eka-gold, etc.). We're way past that now. I suspect strongly that now the synthesis of transactinide elements is mostly about bragging rights.
Nah, the intonation's not right. The way he said it, it sounds more like 「二本」(lit. "two sticks (of)") rather than what he intended, which is 「日本」. He should've accented the "ほ" (ho) rather than the "に" (ni). That aside, he did well for a non-Japanese speaker. Yeah, I'm fun at parties. Not that I go to any.
I've just seen a video from "The King Of Random" about what happens when you make "touch powder", and I don't quite understand the reaction. Can we get an explanation about why Nitrogen Triiodide reacts the way it does when disturbed?
@@U014B Diazepam (trade name Valium) is a benzodiazepene, and definitely does not come from the opium poppy. It is synthesized in a lab, thus it is synthetic and does not come from natural sources, ie opium poppies.
Racists are everywhere nowadays. Pretty sad that the West came up with a term to insult their own people for liking another country, hard to think that all of Western art at this point was actually influenced by the Art Nouveau movement when Siegfried Bing brought Japanese art to the West.
Oh ‘Great Maker’, does this make me feel aged. When I was a Chemistry student the table showed 103 known elements with spaces for predicted 104, 105, 106, 107 and 108 !!! If these new elements can ‘exist’ in the lab just think of the possibilities and wonders that exist in the Cosmos. That thought makes me tingle.
As excited as I am about Nihonium, which is great I assure you, I am just focusing on how jealous I am of that glorious fro. Ok so ignoring the afro, I find the process of finding new elements absolutely fascinating, thanks for the video. Off to the other 3!
_Nihonium - Nh_ sounds great & may be next time when they again manage to get the naming right they could name it as _Nipponium - Np._ That would be wonderful just like France has 2 elements named after their country _Gallium - Ga & Francium - Fr._
So what's with the inefficiency of fusing elements? Do the electron shells force elements to slide past each other? Do atoms not fly directly straight? Do atoms not mesh if their nuclei don't match up a certain way? Has there been any research done on this? Why can't you have essentially a wall of one element and a wall of another that clashes, would this not provide more samples? What about shooting the larger element at the smaller? I'd love to see research on all the small variables just to see what difference it can make.
Yep, that's all fairly well understood. -Most of the atoms miss because the target (like all normal matter) is made up mostly of empty space. Nuclei are tiny tiny specks in the middle of their respective atoms - think ball-bearing in the middle of a football field. -Can't just fire a lump of zinc at the target because it'd be basically impossible to make it move that fast, plus it wouldn't solve the problem anyway (see above). -Firing the heavier element at the lighter one would be far more difficult in several ways, and wouldn't help anyway. Of course there are layers and layers of details beyond that, and I know practically none of it because I've never been involved in heavy element synthesis. But I'm fairly sure you could find as much information as you can handle about those details, if you're curious.
No that's not quite right, it's not the fact that the nucleus is so small, it's the fact that the nucleus has a strong charge, and it's called the coulomb force, and it's that that has to be overcome, mostly.
Nice threads sir. I am actually surprised it wasnt called Nipponium - as those who know the difference between Nihon and Nippon would know, the latter having a more nationalistic flavor to it. The fact they chose the former is a nice show of humility.
That intro though: it looked like the Professor was a detective putting on his periodic table jacket, leaving to investigate a crime. I now want to see that movie :D
Couldn't think of a better combination of man and situation to perform a chemistry Akuma to close out a video. (For those not into fighting games I'm referring to Akuma from Street Fighter's win pose)
Is there any possibility of making use of these new defined elements? What about use of potentially more stable heavier elements? Would be very interesting to find out, or even just the Profs' thoughts on this!
Not to be pedantic, but that would be a "happi," not a kimono. A Kimono is a very elaborate, formal outfit, the equivalent of a nice gown or tux, and thus worn on only very special occasions.
Back in the early twentieth century, a chemist in Japan thought he discovered element 43 and Called it Niponium. Though it was not able to be verified by anyone else so the claim was detracted (some think he actually had element 75). So I'm assuming it is different as to not confuse it with that claim.
Alright, I've got a question. If protons (being positively charged) attract electrons (being negatively charged), but each repels their own kind, why do groups of protons and neutrons bind together in an atomic nucleus to begin with? Shouldn't all protons repel each other and every atom just decay down to single pairs of 1 proton and 1 electron each (hydrogen atoms)?
Skeletor Jopko the strong nuclear force attracts nucleons togethor and is responsible for binding the nucleus togethor at close distances the strong nuclear force overpowers the electrostatic replusion between protons and so the nucleus sticks togethor
I was hoping that the prof would touch more on the ISLAND OF STABILITY that has been predicted, or at least thought about, I'm not sure if there is any actual reason for it, but many physicist's seem to think that there is an island of stability up there somewhere amongst the super-heavy artificial elements. The attraction of these things is because they may have some really BIZARRE properties that other elements don't have, and some believe they could even open up new avenues of physics...but of course we will need a far better way of making them to find that out......
Interesting coincidence how the center part of the six circles on his happi coat resemble the popular symbol from the 1950s and 60s for an atom and it's orbiting electrons (three intersecting elipses.)
4:45 Professor is the radioactive decay of single atom of Nihonium (or any element) enough to cause damage in someone's body? Aren't the decaying energies of the decaying chain of these elements too miniscule to have any impact? Wouldn't that be less than 1% of an X-Ray scan?
Now I know what my favorite element is! ツ (Btw the ---> ツ is the Katakana "tsu" in Japanese. But people use it all the time as an emoji. But I just did too^^) xD
What are the practical implications of these super heavy elements that do not exist in nature, but only through synthesis? Is it only to see how big of an atom can be made? Is it possible that, one day in the distant future, we might find a way to stabilize these elements for enough time that their chemistry could actually be researched and applied to daily life?
This gives me fantasies of near lightspeed travel, or synthesizing a new core for Mars so it can be sustainably terraformed. I'm too much of a layman to explain it, but I see it.
Is it possible to make an environment in which highly unstable atoms are encouraged to be more stable? for instance, a higher gravity environment so that the nucleus is more heavily condensed? or perhaps an energy field like they use on antimatter? im just curious if we could store nihonium like antimatter from the LHC and do tests on a few dozen atoms at a time.
The pressures required would be staggering. You would need to pressurize the elements to a density approximating that of black hole. It gets more complicated because the strong nuclear force is attractive within a very thin range of about 0.75 fm (femtometer) to 2.0 fm. Below the minimum range it becomes repulsive, beyond the maximum range it loses all its potency (and thus the core collapses). So, since a black hole has too much pressure (causing nuclear cores to exceed the minimum range of the strong nuclear force, and thus matter collapses), and all artificial pressures achieved are much much less than those required to keep unstable nucleons between 0.75 fm and 2.0 fm, the only other pressure I could think of keeping nucleons within that optimal range is that in the outer core of a neutron star. Neutron star cores are estimated to have a density of 6×10^17 or 8×10^17 kg/m3, aka 2 to 3 times the density of nuclear cores. It might not even be normal matter but rather "nuclear degenerate matter" or "quark-gluon matter" (in the inner core), or "neutron-proton Fermi liquid" (in the outer core), states between normal matter and a black hole.
No, it would be a periodic table of elements happi. It's a kind of coat which, in the olden days, was worn by servants of a lord, marking which house they served. Nowadays it's typically worn at festivals by organizers or participants in the parade etc. Kimono refers only to a kind of very elaborate formal outfit, typically only worn on very special occasions these days, or during some traditional cultural events.
In olden days Kimono, which literally means "wearing things" (着物) means any Japanese clothes. Now they use the word wafuku (和服) to means Japanese clothes, as you can see in that link you just sent me.
So if I understand this correctly, all the new elements have been created rather than discovered in a natural state. When was the last time they were discovered as such?
If you have a particularly large element, is it possible that more electrons (than conventionally thought to) can fit in the outer shell because the distance between electrons is so low that it becomes energetically feasible?
Isn't 126 supposed to have a long half-life, or be stable? Ish... I'd love to still be alive when they find that peaceful island, with all the protons doing the do-si-do with unpaired neutrons. It just makes my heart sing.
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This man is an international treasure. Please protect him at all costs.
Especially now, in March 2020.
More than the queen
@@Empkemp The queen's just a leech
@@NeilMalthus I'd like to add that he should be on the currency instead of the Queen
@@Empkemp That aged well! 😂
4 Periodic Videos' videos in 1 day, am I in heaven?
No racism on sensei`s channel!
probably
中村久美子 go away
SODAWATER. 水 Well that is rude. We all have the right to comment respectfully.
中村久美子 well I am rude.
Of course you wouldn't slap it together on a Friday afternoon and publish the next day. It's a freaking weekend
Jessy Chaîné I work. I'm not a scientist though
As a student of Japanese, I can think of no better name than Nihonium. Although Japanium would've been cool, would be nice to finally have a "J" in the periodic table!
Thank you Brady for making all the videos that you make, they are educational and entertaining.
you're welcome - thank you for watching them.
Do you have Patreon Page? :)
They do, check the description.
Dear Prof. Poliakoff
I just want to thank you for your sharing some of your knowledge with us and explain it in such a great way not just breaking iy down for us without the lifetime studying of it like yourself but your humbleness and coolness that you have.
To me you are a treasure of knowledge and charisma
1 in a billion how i wish i could have been your student surely you would have changed my life more than you have already
I THANK YOU SO MUCH SIR!
Welp, be back in 45 minutes. Got some periodic videos to watch.
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Throwing science at a wall and seeing what sticks.
Professor, you looks amazing in your new outfit! Cheers from Brazil!
Rodrigo Meazzi we need a brasilium element. The first with three characters on its representation: element 'Hue'
I was totally thinking exactly that during the video !! huehuehuehuehue
"3 atoms in 9 years". Redefining patience they did, too.
Interestingly, Japan in Japanese (Nihon) is 日本, however, when it is written as the element it is ニホニウム, with the first two characters being the same as in the country name, but they're written differently because the element name is a scientific word which is written in the same alphabet that foreign words are written in.
"what Einstein told his barber" is a very interesting book to have in the background.
I like the sound effects over the atom collision animations
The time has finally come, as some have predicted we now have to buy a new periodic table of elements
Planned obsolescence!!!
That's how they get you!
Yes, it is a conspiracy. These experiments must be funded by printing-companies.
Mendelev would be screaming of joy.. "It's Complete" the table is complete!!
fla playa
At least, until Elememt 119 :D
118*
***** I wager 10 dollars that row 8 does not exist. We have pushed the boundaries so far getting to 118 obtaining one atom that immediately decomposes into daughters. Trust me. Mendeleev's table is complete. As for isotopes it is not but base elements.. 118 is the Holy Grail. Maybe I'm wrong. Got ten bucks on the line now. :)
Island of Stability though, once they get large enough to form a new electron shell they might be stable enough to last years, even millennia. They would have nuclei's in the 138-150 range though.
Logan Lenart Island of stability might or might not exist, but his bet now has more chances of losing. lol
"I'm sure I pronounced that incorrectly," Hahaha, actually it's perfect. Japanese is not very hard to pronounce, only stress (which English speakers often add where it shouldn't be) really ever messes it up. But Nihon is exactly as the professor said it.
I know this comment is old but I just want to say that was a really nice and thoughtful of you, both to say the professor was correct and also helps other people who might not know, so thanks 😊
So I didn't mishear him when he pronounced the ん correctly? I didn't expect that he'd know how to pronounce the ん in 日本 (にほん)
I'd love to sit down and have tea with this man.
just love the way he explains
I like nihonium. It's a cool name.
AFX paladin
He said he didn't like the name Americium because it referred to a country (America/USA), but is okay with Nihonium being named after Japan.
OH NO HE DIDN'T
actually nihon means Japan in Japanese
Animenium
@@lilplatelet6792 isn't it Nippon?
Professor Martyn is an absolute legend. How do we immortalise him ?
I need that robe thing so I can walk into school with it, stand up on a table, and say "STAND BACK, I AM GOING TO OPEN A PORTAL TO SCIENCE!"
Publishing a paper on a Saturday.. Oh Sir Poliakoff.. ^^
Tol Hydra Sorry I have to...
KURISUTINNNNAAAA !!!
Tina mo *kinshi*!
Tol Hydra Fine, Zombie ! Or do you prefer Celeb Sev' ?
Jey492 Sere..? Huh?!
you said it perfect! nihon was pronounced wonderfully :)
why is your icon mountain rice field?
Maxwell Power ... uhm because it is my last name xD
yamada - meaning in english is mountain rice field
in japanese it is yamada.
勝郎山田 cool!
That gown-thingy made him look like a wizard hehe..
It's a Japanese happi.
Thanks. Forgot what he called it lol..
The Happi Wizard then :p
@@afrog2666 In Japanese it's called 羽織 and pronounced "Haori". It's an overcoat that is worn over a Kimono, Yukata or Gi.
Are you saying he's not?
@@Metatr0n No that's not a Haori (羽織), the one in the video was Happi (法被)
Out of nowhere four PToV videos!?!? Day maker! Hold on life, I got some videos to watch.
Seeing the professor t-pose, one of the best things in life
does this channel upload videos periodically?
Thank you for this insightful video with the helpful analysis, including the benefits of this research. Nippon is more or less the formal reading of the name of Japan, both names being readings of the characters 日本. Interestingly, towards the end of the video, (8:35) the element is labelled in katakana as ニホニウム or nihoniumu, which seems like it implies a reading of nihoni for 日本 were it to be rendered with kanji. Perhaps it is for convenience of reading, which might also explain why it's not, say, nipponium. Or perhaps because nipponium has already been used in the past, which a quick google search seems to indicate.
I'm by no means an expert or native speaker, but that's how I understand it. The pronunciation in the video of the element names seems close enough to me. Far better than carry-oki or saki or tokio as these words are commonly said. None of this is probably very important but a cursory search didn't reveal any other discussion on the name itself.
ニホニウム is a transcription of "nihonium"
Nippon is not more formal than Nihon (in fact it might be the other way around, it depends)
McDucky どこにその情報を学ぶでしたか？
違いますよね。これを読んで下さい。en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Japan#Nihon_and_Nippon
Eric Robertson
読んだ
正式な件では「にっぽん」と読むのが多いと書いているしかないんだろう
@@FubukiShiromiya yes, every textbook says Nippon is formal
I ask the same question all the time about ニホニウム
On the island of stability: I recall that there was talk of it thirty years ago living toward the end of the transition columns (eka-gold, etc.). We're way past that now. I suspect strongly that now the synthesis of transactinide elements is mostly about bragging rights.
At 5:25. You can get Al+1 easily by reducing Cp*AlCl2 by 2 equivalent of elemental potassium.
Dear Sir Martyn,
Your explanations are so clear and to the point, I really enjoy them. Your students are very fortunate.
You pronounced 'Nihon' perfectly
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Nah, the intonation's not right. The way he said it, it sounds more like 「二本」(lit. "two sticks (of)") rather than what he intended, which is 「日本」. He should've accented the "ほ" (ho) rather than the "に" (ni). That aside, he did well for a non-Japanese speaker.
Yeah, I'm fun at parties. Not that I go to any.
I've just seen a video from "The King Of Random" about what happens when you make "touch powder", and I don't quite understand the reaction. Can we get an explanation about why Nitrogen Triiodide reacts the way it does when disturbed?
An awesome kimono for an awesome man. Thank you Professor.
Woah woah woah, hold on, 4 videos at once??! What is this, real life?
Pav Phone it's just fantasy...
We're caught in a landslide.
I'd continue the Queen reference, but I feel it's more important to point out you just spelt "whoa" wrong three times in a row. And that troubles me.
I think "expletives" like so can be written a bit more freely. Just my thought. Like writing "daaaamn" with several a's etc.
My favorite element is Valium
Myles Bishop No no, Valium is a compound made from the element Opium.
Noel Goetowski are you sure... Well then Opium is my favorite element than you bloke
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Isn't opium a compound - also used to make Diacetylmorphine? (Heroin)
@@U014B Diazepam (trade name Valium) is a benzodiazepene, and definitely does not come from the opium poppy. It is synthesized in a lab, thus it is synthetic and does not come from natural sources, ie opium poppies.
@@U014B r/woosh.
I love the Professor... thank you for these vids, honestly :)
your pronunciation of 日本 was pretty on point :)
Would it be possible to put, for example, a nitrogen atom behind the "target" to bond with the nihonium atom to stabilize it?
I aspire to have the same passion martin has, he's so happy and positive
Weabonium
XDDDD
Fossil98 Japsium
There more to Japan then Anime. Don`t disrespect my country.
Do not take it so seriously. They are a just joking around.
Racists are everywhere nowadays. Pretty sad that the West came up with a term to insult their own people for liking another country, hard to think that all of Western art at this point was actually influenced by the Art Nouveau movement when Siegfried Bing brought Japanese art to the West.
Oh ‘Great Maker’, does this make me feel aged. When I was a Chemistry student the table showed 103 known elements with spaces for predicted 104, 105, 106, 107 and 108 !!! If these new elements can ‘exist’ in the lab just think of the possibilities and wonders that exist in the Cosmos. That thought makes me tingle.
Yeah, when I was at school, the 110 was actually just found and we filled up its place on the table then and learned much from its discovery
The greatest Christmas gift ever to see the professor again, and i don't celebrate Christmas! 😃
his hair style just screams *"SCIENCEEE!!!!"*
Great video, awesome wearable periodic table and brilliant tie. Love it
As excited as I am about Nihonium, which is great I assure you, I am just focusing on how jealous I am of that glorious fro. Ok so ignoring the afro, I find the process of finding new elements absolutely fascinating, thanks for the video. Off to the other 3!
It's a fascinating thought that, maybe, somewhere in the universe, these heavy elements occur naturally.
His Happi, makes me Happy.
_Nihonium - Nh_ sounds great & may be next time when they again manage to get the naming right they could name it as _Nipponium - Np._ That would be wonderful just like France has 2 elements named after their country _Gallium - Ga & Francium - Fr._
Np is for Neptunium and i'm pretty sure they wanted to name Rhenium Nipponium but they didn't end up doing it.
@@oldboyneverrichagain1113 What could've been the symbol for Nipponium if not Np? Why didn't they went with Nipponium?
Why do I like this professor so much? Don’t know why, but I do.
So what's with the inefficiency of fusing elements? Do the electron shells force elements to slide past each other? Do atoms not fly directly straight? Do atoms not mesh if their nuclei don't match up a certain way? Has there been any research done on this? Why can't you have essentially a wall of one element and a wall of another that clashes, would this not provide more samples? What about shooting the larger element at the smaller?
I'd love to see research on all the small variables just to see what difference it can make.
Yep, that's all fairly well understood.
-Most of the atoms miss because the target (like all normal matter) is made up mostly of empty space. Nuclei are tiny tiny specks in the middle of their respective atoms - think ball-bearing in the middle of a football field.
-Can't just fire a lump of zinc at the target because it'd be basically impossible to make it move that fast, plus it wouldn't solve the problem anyway (see above).
-Firing the heavier element at the lighter one would be far more difficult in several ways, and wouldn't help anyway.
Of course there are layers and layers of details beyond that, and I know practically none of it because I've never been involved in heavy element synthesis. But I'm fairly sure you could find as much information as you can handle about those details, if you're curious.
No that's not quite right, it's not the fact that the nucleus is so small, it's the fact that the nucleus has a strong charge, and it's called the coulomb force, and it's that that has to be overcome, mostly.
I'm proud to say that I know Nihonium.
Why I am learning so much from just one video?
Nice threads sir. I am actually surprised it wasnt called Nipponium - as those who know the difference between Nihon and Nippon would know, the latter having a more nationalistic flavor to it. The fact they chose the former is a nice show of humility.
Turns out there was already a proposal to name another element Nipponium so I think maybe that name was not suitable for 'reuse'
That intro though: it looked like the Professor was a detective putting on his periodic table jacket, leaving to investigate a crime. I now want to see that movie :D
Is it theoretically possible that a future element could be stable and not immediately decay?
It could be. This is the predicted "island of stability". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability
Thanks for this channel. He is very informative and entertaining. Many greeting from Germany from a chemical engineer. ;-)
I just really love Professor Poliakoff. Such a neat guy. My goal as a future professor is to be as cool as he is.
Couldn't think of a better combination of man and situation to perform a chemistry Akuma to close out a video.
(For those not into fighting games I'm referring to Akuma from Street Fighter's win pose)
Yeah, stability is strange in superheavy elements. The most extreme case is that of dubnium-268 which has a half-life of 29 hours.
Is there any possibility of making use of these new defined elements? What about use of potentially more stable heavier elements? Would be very interesting to find out, or even just the Profs' thoughts on this!
That was a very kind gift, I bet it made you Happi.
The day an animator decides to animate Periodic Videos I can die happy
2:37 - 2:50
plz do
No, you actually pronounced "Nihon" perfectly.
The kimono just makes this video!
forgot to turn post notifications on DX im so behind time to binge
When the kimono comes on, you know shit's about to get real
Not to be pedantic, but that would be a "happi," not a kimono. A Kimono is a very elaborate, formal outfit, the equivalent of a nice gown or tux, and thus worn on only very special occasions.
Nihon, not Nippon?
But Nippon is more formal than Nihon!
Also, I want my Nipplonium and make tasslers of them
I certainly learned it with a HO in Japanese studies. I don't recall ever even learning when to use nippon or the difference.
Nihon is more formal than Nippon. They are both written with the same characters 日本 but you would be better off saying Nihon then Nippon.
Back in the early twentieth century, a chemist in Japan thought he discovered element 43 and Called it Niponium. Though it was not able to be verified by anyone else so the claim was detracted (some think he actually had element 75). So I'm assuming it is different as to not confuse it with that claim.
Well tho Nihon/Nippon are almost same, I assume they chose Nihonium because the Np already stands for Neptunium...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIR PROFF!!!
Alright, I've got a question. If protons (being positively charged) attract electrons (being negatively charged), but each repels their own kind, why do groups of protons and neutrons bind together in an atomic nucleus to begin with? Shouldn't all protons repel each other and every atom just decay down to single pairs of 1 proton and 1 electron each (hydrogen atoms)?
Skeletor Jopko the strong nuclear force attracts nucleons togethor and is responsible for binding the nucleus togethor at close distances the strong nuclear force overpowers the electrostatic replusion between protons and so the nucleus sticks togethor
xiangxi zhang Thanks!
xiangxi zhang that's the weak one
They dont really know yet..
I was hoping that the prof would touch more on the ISLAND OF STABILITY that has been predicted, or at least thought about, I'm not sure if there is any actual reason for it, but many physicist's seem to think that there is an island of stability up there somewhere amongst the super-heavy artificial elements. The attraction of these things is because they may have some really BIZARRE properties that other elements don't have, and some believe they could even open up new avenues of physics...but of course we will need a far better way of making them to find that out......
Interesting coincidence how the center part of the six circles on his happi coat resemble the popular symbol from the 1950s and 60s for an atom and it's orbiting electrons (three intersecting elipses.)
Element 199 and beyond AND the island of stability! I love that they are thinking big, lets hope they make it true ;)
I seriously love that coat of the Periodic Table. I would wear that with pride.
The professor looked pretty cool while displaying his back in the happi.
Wow when brian may puts of a periodic table kimono he becomes a chemist
4:45 Professor is the radioactive decay of single atom of Nihonium (or any element) enough to cause damage in someone's body? Aren't the decaying energies of the decaying chain of these elements too miniscule to have any impact? Wouldn't that be less than 1% of an X-Ray scan?
Professor's swag game is strong
Now I know what my favorite element is! ツ
(Btw the ---> ツ is the Katakana "tsu" in Japanese. But people use it all the time as an emoji. But I just did too^^) xD
Small tsu ッ is used to indicate a one stop pause in the word often Romanized as double letters for the kana after it.
So how fast are you talking about when you combine the light and heavy elements? Like what would happen if threw on at the other as hard as I could?
What are the practical implications of these super heavy elements that do not exist in nature, but only through synthesis?
Is it only to see how big of an atom can be made? Is it possible that, one day in the distant future, we might find a way to stabilize these elements for enough time that their chemistry could actually be researched and applied to daily life?
I guess I should’ve watched the whole video before asking this 🤣
I knew he was an Elemental Wizard!!
I could listen to you all day long. But ill end up running out of video at some point
I love those kind of videos.
Can you please provide the link to the reference for the paper?
You pronounced *Nihon* correctly , ojii-san
This gives me fantasies of near lightspeed travel, or synthesizing a new core for Mars so it can be sustainably terraformed. I'm too much of a layman to explain it, but I see it.
The German in the end screen is a legend. The German Accent in person.
Thank you very much, professor!
Is it possible to make an environment in which highly unstable atoms are encouraged to be more stable?
for instance, a higher gravity environment so that the nucleus is more heavily condensed? or perhaps an energy field like they use on antimatter? im just curious if we could store nihonium like antimatter from the LHC and do tests on a few dozen atoms at a time.
The pressures required would be staggering. You would need to pressurize the elements to a density approximating that of black hole. It gets more complicated because the strong nuclear force is attractive within a very thin range of about 0.75 fm (femtometer) to 2.0 fm. Below the minimum range it becomes repulsive, beyond the maximum range it loses all its potency (and thus the core collapses).
So, since a black hole has too much pressure (causing nuclear cores to exceed the minimum range of the strong nuclear force, and thus matter collapses), and all artificial pressures achieved are much much less than those required to keep unstable nucleons between 0.75 fm and 2.0 fm, the only other pressure I could think of keeping nucleons within that optimal range is that in the outer core of a neutron star.
Neutron star cores are estimated to have a density of 6×10^17 or 8×10^17 kg/m3, aka 2 to 3 times the density of nuclear cores. It might not even be normal matter but rather "nuclear degenerate matter" or "quark-gluon matter" (in the inner core), or "neutron-proton Fermi liquid" (in the outer core), states between normal matter and a black hole.
what about powerful magnetic fields like holding antimatter?
FYI, the name RIKEN are not initials, but romanisation (transliteration into Latin alphabet) of two Japanese kanjis '理研', which reads LEE-CAN.
KEN, not CAN
Is that a periodic table of elements kimono?
No, it would be a periodic table of elements happi. It's a kind of coat which, in the olden days, was worn by servants of a lord, marking which house they served. Nowadays it's typically worn at festivals by organizers or participants in the parade etc.
Kimono refers only to a kind of very elaborate formal outfit, typically only worn on very special occasions these days, or during some traditional cultural events.
"Kimono refers only to a kind of very elaborate formal outfit"
No, it doesn't
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimono
In olden days Kimono, which literally means "wearing things" (着物) means any Japanese clothes. Now they use the word wafuku (和服) to means Japanese clothes, as you can see in that link you just sent me.
So if I understand this correctly, all the new elements have been created rather than discovered in a natural state. When was the last time they were discovered as such?
TENKJU DR. MISTER MARTIN . ELEMENT 118.ANU NOCTIJUM OGANESON
If you have a particularly large element, is it possible that more electrons (than conventionally thought to) can fit in the outer shell because the distance between electrons is so low that it becomes energetically feasible?
「日本」と言うの発音はいいですよね。Your pronunciation of Nihon was fine ^^
Is that a chemical-themed kimono? You look amazing with it, you should consider it as new lab uniform
This video is very helpful thank u
Isn't 126 supposed to have a long half-life, or be stable? Ish...
I'd love to still be alive when they find that peaceful island, with all the protons doing the do-si-do with unpaired neutrons. It just makes my heart sing.