$500,000 of Calcium - Periodic Table of Videos
The rare isotope Calcium-48 plays a key role in the creation of superheavy elements. But it's not easy to obtain. Filmed at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, ...
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I'm here at the joint institute for nuclear research in Dubna in Russia the place where so many of the super-heavy elements have been created and I'm going to show you an absolutely key component from making those elements and it's also probably the most expensive compound you've ever seen. And the sample I'm going to show you is here on the table. In many of our videos about these heavy elements we've talked about accelerating a light element onto a target and creating the super-heavy element, but we usually rather dismissed what the light element is we said well it's calcium... plus element calcium 20 plus 95 makes 115... it is actually a very special isotope of calcium called calcium-48. It occurs naturally but in a very very, small abundanc...
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I'm here at the joint institute for nuclear research in Dubna in Russia the place where so many of the super-heavy elements have been created and I'm going to show you an absolutely key component from making those elements and it's also probably the most expensive compound you've ever seen. And the sample I'm going to show you is here on the table. In many of our videos about these heavy elements we've talked about accelerating a light element onto a target and creating the super-heavy element, but we usually rather dismissed what the light element is we said well it's calcium... plus element calcium 20 plus 95 makes 115... it is actually a very special isotope of calcium called calcium-48. It occurs naturally but in a very very, small abundanc...
