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Cyclotron saves periodic table when physics goes bonkers
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are using the 88-Inch Cyclotron to help steady the famous periodic table of elements one atom at a time where it's gone a bit wobbly at the heavy element end.
As the lesson droned on, the huge, inevitable poster on the classroom wall gave the students something arcane to look at and study as an alternative to dozing off and getting a tongue-lashing and possibly a piece of chalk tossed at your head. First published in 1869 by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev and later refined and revised by others, it marked the first successful attempt to properly organize the elements by their atomic weights and properties. For example, biochemists interested in lifeforms on other worlds could speculate that they might be made out of silicon or breathe chlorine because these elements are very similar to carbon and oxygen based on their places on the table.
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