At 01:06 PM 2/6/02, Alberto Monteiro wrote: >Darryl Shannon wrote: > > > > And I do NOT follow Alberto around! That is a baseless > > accusation that my enemies have manufactured the > > evidence for. > > >I thought that the data meant that I was following _you_. > > > And...did the chlorine discussion just up and DIE? Come > > on. Chlorine! Chlorine, people! Let's get something > > going there for crying out loud. > > >It�s off-topic.
Because it might be remotely relevant to SF . . . >BTW, ever since I learned the Periodic Table I have been >curious about "replacements", for example, why there >is methane but not the Si-equivalent It's called "silane." >or why there >are many N-O combinations but very few P-O combinations. Those are called "ZIP codes" . . . ;-) >Also, I heard about chemical components that used >noble gases, something like Kr F_n Xenon (the noble gas with the largest atoms, hence the loosest grip on its outer electrons) was combined with first fluorine and then fluorine and oxygen beginning IIRC around 1964 or so. >Or to enter the realm of arcane science: IIRC, some >people were studying the _chemical_ properties of >"hidrogen atoms" were either the proton or the electron >were replaced by other particles. These "atoms" >are, obviously, unstable, but during their short existence >they could form chemical components. One can have an electron orbiting a positive muon or a negative muon orbiting a proton, but both are short-lived because the lifetime of the muon is measured in microseconds. (Because the muon is 270 times the mass of the electron, its orbital radius is 1/270 that of the electron (which is 0.529 �ngstroms, IIRC), which seemed to show some promise as a method of getting protons close enough to each other to fuse at low energies/temperatures, but it turns out that the muon decays before it can catalyze enough fusions to produce more energy than it takes to produce a muon.) A positron and an electron can briefly form an "atom" and orbit each other for a bit before the orbit decays and they annihilate. -- Ronn! :) God bless America, Land that I love! Stand beside her, and guide her Thru the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, To the oceans, white with foam� God bless America! My home, sweet home. -- Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
