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ledbowman
09/01/21 12:54:05 AM
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apparently the guy who figured out the arrangement was so right that he used the few places that were missing to predict the discovery of those elements and their properties

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Heliogabalus
09/01/21 12:54:38 AM
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Yeah but can you wrap it round a stick?

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Bad_Mojo
09/01/21 12:56:34 AM
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I honestly didn't know there was a formula to the placement.

I didn't do so well in public school, lol

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Questionmarktarius
09/01/21 1:00:19 AM
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Bad_Mojo posted...
I honestly didn't know there was a formula to the placement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octet_rule
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Bad_Mojo
09/01/21 1:01:10 AM
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Questionmarktarius
09/01/21 1:17:27 AM
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There's a bit of a glitch in the bottom right corner:

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SiO4
09/01/21 1:20:18 AM
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ledbowman posted...
apparently the guy who figured out the arrangement was so right that he used the few places that were missing to predict the discovery of those elements and their properties


This is true!
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Bad_Mojo
09/01/21 1:20:55 AM
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BloodMoon7
09/01/21 1:21:00 AM
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The periodic table is witchcraft.

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Questionmarktarius
09/01/21 1:22:29 AM
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cuh posted...
lol, why is that? (As in, why is bismuth safe?)
Nobody has any idea.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/elements/features/2010/blogging_the_periodic_table/bismuth_a_gentleman_among_scoundrels.html

Bismuth a radioactive heavy metal, yet generally harmless, and even medicinal somehow.
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Tyranthraxus
09/01/21 1:25:42 AM
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cuh posted...
lol, why is that? (As in, why is bismuth safe?)

Has to do with the number of electrons in the outer layer.

Bismuth is the main ingredient in Pepto bismol. It's also got a little aspirin.

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Questionmarktarius
09/01/21 1:29:17 AM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
Has to do with the number of electrons in the outer layer.
Bismuth has the same valence shell as arsenic and antimony, and those are both bad news.

The next one over, Polonium, is an absurdly active alpha emitter, but it's mostly safe to handle. Just don't get it inside you or stare at it too closely.
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Returning_CEmen
09/01/21 1:31:45 AM
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Tag

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Questionmarktarius
09/01/21 1:36:10 AM
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Fun fact: if you ever find yourself in a warehouse full of a million tons of bananas, and a million tons of pure bismuth, you should shelter behind the bismuth.
It's radioactive, yes, but it's less radioactive than you are, and vastly less radioactive than those bananas.

A hypothetical bismuth golem would shelter behind you.
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Kanaya413
09/01/21 1:38:16 AM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Fun fact: if you ever find yourself in a warehouse full of a million tons of bananas, and a million tons of pure bismuth, you should shelter behind the bismuth.
It's radioactive, yes, but it's less radioactive than you are, and vastly less radioactive than those bananas.

A hypothetical bismuth golem would shelter behind you.
Huh
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Questionmarktarius
09/01/21 1:48:33 AM
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Kanaya413 posted...
Huh
There's a handful of simple activities that vastly increase an average human's radiation exposure in daily life.
Eating bananas or potatoes (potassium-40)
Keeping a cellphone in your pocket (indium-115)
Having a smoke (polonium-210)
Riding a bus (potassium-40 again)
Doing anything in your basement (radon-222)
Having sex (potassium-40, yet again)
Eating a brazilnut (radium-224, 226, and 228; cesium-137)
Sleeping in the same bed as someone else (seriously, potassium-40 is fucking everywhere)
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emmo
09/01/21 2:23:55 AM
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Spin, yo. Pauli for da win.

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Questionmarktarius
09/01/21 2:26:54 AM
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cuh posted...

https://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/presentations/radioactive-human-body
Your body is measurably radioactive, and it's mostly because of potassium.

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Turtlebread
09/01/21 2:28:48 AM
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this topic was interesting and informative

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SiO4
09/01/21 2:29:49 AM
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Turtlebread posted...
this topic was interesting and informative


I haven't read it.
What happened?
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Turtlebread
09/01/21 2:32:19 AM
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SiO4 posted...
I haven't read it.
What happened?


Im sorry but you need a very high iq to understand

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SiO4
09/01/21 2:34:26 AM
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Turtlebread posted...


Im sorry but you need a very high iq to understand


Ya, I don't understand these things, clearly.
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Questionmarktarius
09/01/21 2:46:48 AM
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SiO4 posted...
Ya, I don't understand these things, clearly.
I'm an absurd elements nerd, especially when drunk. If you don't know something, I'll explain it best I can, but I'll probably be drunk at the time.
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Heliogabalus
09/01/21 5:23:56 AM
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Now, tell us about how phosphorus used to be isolated.

Extra points if you work match girls in there, or clock painters (for a similar phenomenon).

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Questionmarktarius
09/01/21 5:26:30 AM
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Heliogabalus posted...
Extra points if you work match girls in there,
Phossy jaw is bad news

or clock painters (for a similar phenomenon).
Radium is even worse.

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yunalenne10
09/01/21 5:31:20 AM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
There's a handful of simple activities that vastly increase an average human's radiation exposure in daily life.
Eating bananas or potatoes (potassium-40)
Keeping a cellphone in your pocket (indium-115)
Having a smoke (polonium-210)
Riding a bus (potassium-40 again)
Doing anything in your basement (radon-222)
Having sex (potassium-40, yet again)
Eating a brazilnut (radium-224, 226, and 228; cesium-137)
Sleeping in the same bed as someone else (seriously, potassium-40 is fucking everywhere)

K.

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Questionmarktarius
09/01/21 5:33:17 AM
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yunalenne10 posted...
K.

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SiO4
09/01/21 10:38:24 AM
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Questionmarktarius posted...

I'm an absurd elements nerd, especially when drunk. If you don't know something, I'll explain it best I can, but I'll probably be drunk at the time.


I was kind of joking, based on my user name.
I would think he would have noticed that. lol
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Turtlebread
09/01/21 10:45:22 AM
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SiO4 posted...
I was kind of joking, based on my user name.
I would think he would have noticed that. lol


my comment about IQ was obviously not serious, it was actually him that didnt recognise the irony


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SiO4
09/01/21 10:46:23 AM
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Turtlebread posted...


my comment about IQ was obviously not serious, it was actually him that didnt recognise the irony



Think we are all friends here.
If anything we dropped down a Science nerd joke wormhole.
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Turtlebread
09/01/21 10:56:40 AM
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DarkChozoGhost
09/01/21 11:32:19 AM
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How many bananas do you have to eat before there's noticeable risk?

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ledbowman
09/01/21 11:34:32 AM
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DarkChozoGhost posted...
How many bananas do you have to eat before there's noticeable risk?
i think the potassium would stop your heart before radiation would come into play. correct me if i'm wrong

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Bad_Mojo
09/01/21 3:06:13 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Phossy jaw is bad news

Radium is even worse.

That was a shotgun suicide attempt, I think

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IHeartRadiation
09/01/21 3:19:06 PM
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Bad_Mojo posted...
That was a shotgun suicide attempt, I think
He tried to commit suicide by only trying to ruin his jawline?

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Questionmarktarius
09/01/21 3:38:08 PM
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DarkChozoGhost posted...
How many bananas do you have to eat before there's noticeable risk?
Somewhere around 24 a day, for about a year.

Bad_Mojo posted...
That was a shotgun suicide attempt, I think
That's supposedly Eben Byers, after his jaw disintegrated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Byers

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ShyOx
09/01/21 6:39:19 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
There's a bit of a glitch in the bottom right corner:

Everything above Uranium is manmade. Two of the lower ones are as well.

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ShyOx
09/01/21 6:43:01 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Somewhere around 24 a day, for about a year.

That's supposedly Eben Byers, after his jaw disintegrated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Byers

Guy who made RADITHOR that killed Eben Byers DIDNT GET ARRESTED and went ONTO MANAGE THE ELECTRONICS DIVISION OF IBM DURING WW2 lol

Like wtf

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MrKapowski
09/01/21 6:48:01 PM
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Wait so that really cool chunk of bismuth I bought at a rock show is kinda radioactive?

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Tyranthraxus
09/01/21 10:50:19 PM
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MrKapowski posted...
Wait so that really cool chunk of bismuth I bought at a rock show is kinda radioactive?

Pretty sure nearly every element in the world has at least one radioactive isotope.

The radioactivity of elements is measured by their half life. "Radioactive" stuff is mostly stuff with no stable isotopes and a short half life.

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Questionmarktarius
09/02/21 11:00:17 AM
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MrKapowski posted...
Wait so that really cool chunk of bismuth I bought at a rock show is kinda radioactive?
Barely, to the point that it doesn't really matter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismuth-209
Due to its extraordinarily long half-life, for nearly all applications 209Bi can still be treated as if it were non-radioactive. Its radioactivity is much slighter than that of human flesh, so it poses no meaningful hazard from radiation.
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MrKapowski
09/02/21 1:11:59 PM
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Oh good lol


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SiO4
09/03/21 2:13:21 AM
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Bump
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teep_
09/03/21 3:02:49 AM
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I like this topic
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Questionmarktarius
09/03/21 1:14:55 PM
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The last six elements only exist because of pretty much one guy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Oganessian
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