Feb
15
Discovery of 'Pelosium'
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I don’t normally post on Mondays, but I couldn’t resist passing this one along (courtesy G. Beck):
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California has now identified with certainty the heaviest element known to science.
The new element, Pelosium (PL), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.
These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.”
Read more about the discovery here.
