Possible evidence of Ubb-292! in nature!

[insane_alien]

just browsing round the internet and came across this:

 

http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.3869

and

http://arxivblog.com/?p=385

 

They might have found Unbibium-292 in a sample of thorium. and not out of a nuclear reactor either.

 

of course the concentration is vanishingly tiny.

 

i really hope this is for real as it would be a major find and could turn up some interesting new chemistry.

 

any thoughts from the masses?

[hermanntrude]

unbibiium? element 122? seriously?

 

hmmmmm

 

that'd be in the third row of the f-block, right? holy crap.

[John Cuthber]

Interesting.

If it's real then it's suprising that it hasn't been spotted before. Anyway, it shouldn't be difficult for someone to confirm it.

[CaptainPanic]

The original article (pdf) is found at:

http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0804/0804.3869.pdf

 

Of course with a new article, this was also linked on the website that insane_alien posted.

[YT2095]

so would this be [uuo]6f0 7d2 8s2 then?

[CaptainPanic]

About the orbitals... is there are theoretical reason why the orbitals cannot have another geometry, other than the S, P, D and F? I could imagine that if we're looking at a superactinide element that there's a fifth geometry for an orbital. But I am unfamiliar with the quantum calculations that predict orbitals, so perhaps there's a theoretical reason why we file this new element in the category of "superactinide", and not a category of its own?

[John Cuthber]

G block elements anyone?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-block

[hermanntrude]

a link from that page:

 

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