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Traveling Sharks: There's more to the seashore than sand, sun and surf--there's science all around you. Here are six puzzles to ponder.(Brief Article)
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July 8, 2002|
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Byline: Fred Guterl
The huge shark in "Jaws" liked to hang around Martha's Vineyard. But it turns out that great whites prefer to roam. Marine biologist Peter Pyle attached electronic tags to four great whites off the coast of northern California two years ago. "We kind of had an idea they'd head south to Baja," where there's a feeding ground off the coast, he says. Pyle was shocked to find the sharks heading due west instead, eventually ending up in Hawaii, 2,500 miles away.
The trip has biologists astonished. Since the sharks cruise at a poky 2mph, the ...
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Hassium holds its place at the table.(periodic table of chemical elements)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Science News
; ...have studied the chemistry of the element hassium, confirming its location on the periodic table. Hassium, with 108 protons in each atom, is the...properties analyzed. First created in 1984, hassium doesn't exist in nature--it must be...
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Blink and you'll miss it.(announcement of a new element ununoctium)
Magazine article from: Chemistry and Industry
; ...experiments carried out on the fleeting atoms of hassium (element 108) for which a tetroxide...berkelium (97), dubnium (105), and hassium (108), the latter named after the German...fur Schwerionenforschung (GSI) where hassium was first made. Obviously, and because...
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New element monikers laid on the table.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Science News
; ...names for the elements numbered 104 to 109: rutherfordium (104), dubnium (105), seaborgium (106), bohrium (107), hassium (108), and meitnerium (109). The slate represents a compromise over earlier ones, which drew protests from the U.S...
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Element Name Honors Nobel Prize-Winning Former Prof
News Wire article from: University Wire
; ...and 109 on the periodic table. The official names are 104 Rutherfordium, 105 Dubnium, 106 Seaborgium, 107 Bohrium, 108 Hassium, and 109 Meitnerium. Another controversy arose over the fact that IUPAC was hesitant to name the element after the 1951 winner...
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New physics research from A. Staszczak and colleagues discussed.(Report)
Newspaper article from: Physics Week
; ...researchers concluded: "We also predict a new phenomenon of trimodal spontaneous fission for some rutherfordium, seaborgium, and hassium isotopes.." Staszczak and colleagues published their study in Physical Review C (Microscopic description of complex nuclear...
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A magical pair of 6x6 chemical squares.
Magazine article from: Word Ways
; ...Tantalum Rhenium Osmium Iridium Platinum Mercury Thallium Lead Actinium Thorium Protactinium Plutonium Einsteinium Seaborgium Hassium transposed, yields Right square: Lithium Oxygen Sodium Aluminium Chlorine Chromium Iron Copper Gallium Arsenic Selenium Strontium...
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Six element names approved by International Union
Magazine article from: Chemical Engineering Progress
; ...September 1997. The approval of the elements' namesrutherfordium (Rf), dubnium (Db), seaborgium (Sg), bohrium (Bh), hassium (Hs), and meitnerium (Mt)settled differences between researchers in the US, Germany, and Russia, but "in the end...
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Reflections on 40 years of involvement.(IUPAC--Then and Now)
Magazine article from: Chemistry International
; ...permanent trivial name. Most go for famous compatriots or home towns and states. Thus, we now use names such as seaborgium, hassium, dubnium, and californium. In the meantime, IUPAC has devised the peculiar three-letter symbols and related names for...
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HOMEWORK FOR GROWN-UPS; EVERYTHING YOU LEARNT AT SCHOOL... BUT CAN YOU REMEMBER?(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...d) cricket 8. Which of the following elements has the highest atomic weight? a) roentgenium b) dubnium c) bohrium d) hassium 9. Who is the patron saint of animals? a) St George b) St Andrew c) St Anthony of Padua d) St Francis of Assisi 10...
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'Copernicium' proposed as name for newly discovered element 112.
Newspaper article from: NewsRx Health & Science
; ...numbers 107 to 112. The discovering teams at GSI already named five of them: element 107 is called bohrium, element 108 hassium, element 109 meitnerium, element 110 darmstadtium, and element 111 is named roentgenium. Keywords: Helmholtz Association...
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