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Re:Four New Names Officially Added to the Periodic Table of ... by acchow on Thursday December 01, 2016 @07:21PM (#13084925)
I don't think we could produce a pound of this (that exists contemporaneously)
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Re:Four New Names Officially Added to the Periodic Table of ... by djsumdog on Thursday December 01, 2016 @07:58PM (#13085099)
pounds? Come on, we're scientists and engineers here (well some of us). Grams .. or in this case, nanograms or picograms .. possibly attograms.
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Re:Four New Names Officially Added to the Periodic Table of ... by semi-extrinsic on Friday December 02, 2016 @11:36AM (#13089999)
A single oganesson atom weighs 294 u, or 0.488 zeptograms. That's 0.000488 attograms.
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Re:Four New Names Officially Added to the Periodic Table of ... by mathattack on Friday December 02, 2016 @12:48PM (#13090689)
ok, I'll settle for a metric ton!
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