Philosophy
The following article is quite interesting in discussing the most important elements used to make an atomic accelerator function.
Look at the periodic table of elements, and you’d be hard pressed to find an element that is not used in physics. But what are the most important elements for building accelerators, detecting particles, and solving the mysteries of the universe? The search for answers takes us on a winding journey that includes ancient shipwrecks, trendy earrings, and the sound of dark matter. symmetry intern Kristine Crane asks Fermilab physicists about the elements they could not live without.
Left to right: superconducting cavities made of niobium; germanium crystal of the CDMS experiment; ATLAS silicon detector.
[Click the charts to enlarge for better reading.]
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Philosophy
Elements and accelerators
The following article is quite interesting in discussing the most important elements used to make an atomic accelerator function.
"deconstruction: periodic table"
by
Kristine Crane
July 9th, 2009
Symmetry
by
Kristine Crane
July 9th, 2009
Symmetry
Look at the periodic table of elements, and you’d be hard pressed to find an element that is not used in physics. But what are the most important elements for building accelerators, detecting particles, and solving the mysteries of the universe? The search for answers takes us on a winding journey that includes ancient shipwrecks, trendy earrings, and the sound of dark matter. symmetry intern Kristine Crane asks Fermilab physicists about the elements they could not live without.
Left to right: superconducting cavities made of niobium; germanium crystal of the CDMS experiment; ATLAS silicon detector.[Click the charts to enlarge for better reading.]
- Chemistry: A Volatile History - The Order Of The Elements
In the first episode of this fascinating documentary series, Professor Jim Al-Khalili traced the history of chemical element discovery, from its origins in ancient Greece to medieval alchemy and finally to modern chemistry. With a lot of ingenuity, scientists...
- Ununseptium...element #117
"Scientists Confirm The Existence Of Element 117" by Alex Knapp May 3rd, 2014 Forbes The official Periodic Table of the Elements is one step closer to adding element 117 to its ranks. That’s thanks to an international team of scientists that was...
- New Elements For The Periodic Table
"Scientists Welcome Two New Elements to the Periodic Table" by Katy Steinmetz June 2011 Time You may have grown up thinking you knew what was what in science, back when Pluto was a planet, the opposite sex had cooties, and the last 10% of every beverage...
- Elements Poll
Have we discovered "all" the elements? No...8 Yes...2 Empirically, we have no idea. This is a cool interactive periodic table [Chemical & Engineering News]. Click the desired element and a new window will open offering technical, historical, and...
- Periodic Table...#112 Is Official
Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung (GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany is the hot bed for discovering and confirming new elements. On November 9th, 1994 the first atom with atomic number 110 was discovered...later confirmed and named in 2003 as Darmstatdium;...