Roentgenium - Periodic Table of Videos
Roentgenium is element number 111 and was created at GSI in Germany, where we made this film. More links in description below ↓↓↓ Support Periodic Videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/...
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I am sitting in the control room of the GSI Institute, the control room of the linear accelerator that was used to create element 111 and five of the other super-heavy elements. The idea of this is that you have a metal target, usually lead or bismuth, elements 82 or 83. And you take a lighter element, say copper and bang the copper at huge velocity into the lead or the bismuth, depending the element that you want to make. The idea is that you have to accelerate them very fast so that the two positively charged nuclei can come together. But not so fast that you have a lot of energy and they immediately fall apart again. Ok, this is the periodic table of the elements that was used for the christening of element 111 which was called roentgenium. And...
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I am sitting in the control room of the GSI Institute, the control room of the linear accelerator that was used to create element 111 and five of the other super-heavy elements. The idea of this is that you have a metal target, usually lead or bismuth, elements 82 or 83. And you take a lighter element, say copper and bang the copper at huge velocity into the lead or the bismuth, depending the element that you want to make. The idea is that you have to accelerate them very fast so that the two positively charged nuclei can come together. But not so fast that you have a lot of energy and they immediately fall apart again. Ok, this is the periodic table of the elements that was used for the christening of element 111 which was called roentgenium. And...
