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Some of the atoms in the molecule are very weakly bound.
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xkcd #3200: Chemical Formula
Title text:
Some of the atoms in the molecule are very weakly bound.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3200/
20 Comments
stelelor@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 213d
The formula starts with CH, which means the universe is organic.
NachBarcelona@piefed.social · 7 pts · 213d
or Swiss
PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 213d
I mean... there's a C-H bond in there somewhere.
ranzispa@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 213d
Pretty sure that yes, somewhere in the universe there is organic matter.
djehuti@programming.dev · 2 pts · 213d
Indeed! Hello!
AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 213d
I’m not a physicist, but even if Astatine is being produced in minute quantities by decay, a half life of 8hrs should probably put it lower on the numbers than Americium.
Americium is produced anywhere you have lots of free neutrons. This may be rare on earth outside of nuclear power plants and bomb test sites, but not necessarily rare in the universe. Especially since it has a half life of 432years, so unlike astatine it can actually accumulate a bit and not just decay immediately.
Astatine basically doesn’t exist. The total amount in the entirety of earth’s crust at any given time is estimated to be less than a gram.
So I feel like the amounts should be flipped or at the very least closer in orders of magnitude.
palordrolap@fedia.io · 14 pts · 214d
There are exotic atoms in that chemical formula that aren't in the periodic table. Not even if you count the equivalent table of potential antimatter atoms.
Muonium is sure to exist in non-zero quantities at any one time, for example.
Pyro@programming.dev · 12 pts · 213d
That's just impurities
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 213d
This made me laugh too much
WR5@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 213d
"Approximate chemical formula"
kopasz7@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 213d
Still can't find blackholium, what element number is it?
Trail@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 213d
-1
palordrolap@fedia.io · 3 pts · 213d
-1 would be antihydrogen. Blackholium is whatever number is large enough to cause gravitational collapse, so probably one or two more than the largest neutron star.
Trail@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 213d
Yeah I was more like referring to an overflow or something.
ElBarto@piefed.social · 1 pts · 213d
♾️
gegil@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 213d
What about elements beyond 119?
nialv7@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 213d
And neutron stars.
GreatRam@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 213d
Gold and silver are nice
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 213d
surprised there's so much gold.
ryannathans@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 213d
Neutron stars go brrr