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Where did I put my Tinker Toys?

[Henry J]

To stop the tip from absorbing the pentacene molecule, the researchers replaced the metal with a single molecule of carbon monoxide.

Don't they know that carbon monoxide is toxic?

[lswot]

To stop the tip from absorbing the pentacene molecule, the researchers replaced the metal with a single molecule of carbon monoxide.

Don't they know that carbon monoxide is toxic?

Only if you breath it......

[Henry J]

http://www.webelements.com/

Element 117 discovered?

A paper just accepted for publication (5 April 2010) in Physical Review Letters by Yu. Ts. Oganessian and others claims the synthesis of a new element with atomic number 117. The abstract states "The discovery of a new chemical element with atomic number Z=117 is reported. The isotopes 293 117 and 294 117 were produced in fusion reactions between 48 Ca and 249 Bk. [...]

[lswot]

whatever that means........But will it cure the common cold?

[Henry J]

Nah, it just fills a hole in the periodic table, since element 118 got discovered before 117.

[lswot]

Nah, it just fills a hole in the periodic table, since element 118 got discovered before 117.

Now that makes.....uh......non perfect sense....118 before 117.....where'd they learn to count?

[Henry J]

In elementary school, perhaps?

[lswot]

There you go...........

[Henry J]

In breakthrough, scientists trap antimatter atoms

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.......so it doesn't matter?

[Henry J]

No, it doesn't anti-matter!

[lswot]

So....two negatives = a positive?

[Henry J]

Oh, absotively!

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