Re: gperiodic is officially part of debian (was Re: gperiodic debianpackage complete except for man page)

[Robert Hopcroft <hopcroft@uswest.net>]

georgesk@boltz.univ-littoral.fr wrote:

> Kyle Burton writes:
>
>  > >  - there are more than 118 elements (someone said to me, approx. 143)...
>  > >      can we get the others in as well?
>  >
>  > I didn't have data for those elements.
>
> And these are not the most useful. The recently discovered elements
> did exist as some hundreds of atoms which decaied in some fractions of
> second by radioactivity. Their interesting features are more related
> to nuclear properties (nuclear stability, mechanism of desintegration)
> than to chemical properties, since these elements are very unlikely to
> undergo complicated chemica reactions due to their very short
> half-life time.
>
> Nethertheless it would be useful to do links from these elements to
> web pages describing the efforts of some laboratories researching the
> ultimate conditions of stability of an atomic nucleus.

GSI (Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung) the creators of elements 107 - 112
has a web site at http://www.gsi.de/gsi.research.html (English) and
http://www.gsi.de/gsi.welcome.deutsch.html (german).

Bob