Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Chemistry/Physics has a new baby!
http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/061017_ap_heavy_element.html
Do NOT think that making element 118 (will they call it Cicaleum???) has anything to do with chemical reactions, though.
This is high energy NUCLEAR PHYSICS. However, chemists DO get a new element to play with.
p.s. AP Class: I made a typo on the hw: text reading this week should have covered Chapter 6 sections 1 through 5 and 7 through 9. Section 6 is on Calorimetry which we will cover on Thursday.
Do NOT think that making element 118 (will they call it Cicaleum???) has anything to do with chemical reactions, though.
This is high energy NUCLEAR PHYSICS. However, chemists DO get a new element to play with.
p.s. AP Class: I made a typo on the hw: text reading this week should have covered Chapter 6 sections 1 through 5 and 7 through 9. Section 6 is on Calorimetry which we will cover on Thursday.
# posted by C @ 11:24 PM 
