Hard to know what to make of this as it is not my field. But here is a claim for element 122, or maybe 124, detection in thorium by a mass spectrometric method. The authors have claimed previously the observation of very heavy isotopes, for instance Rg isotopes in the mass spectra of natural gold (http://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-ex/0702051).

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I would like to add that Erbium is used as a dopant in optical fiber amplifier for telecom wavelength (1500-1600 nm).
It is also used with a much more concentration in optical fibers for fibre laser.

I was wondering if any one out there could tell me a efficient way to produce photons. I want to produce lithium from beryllium [photon+Be=Li+H]. I know you can produce neutrons with aluminium or beryllium and a alpha emitter but I can not find a way to excite atoms to produce photons. I know if you run a electric arc across mecury vapor which discharge ultraviolet photons I'm wondering if these will do the same thing as normal photons if not what will.

The table in a bathroom

Modern surface chemistry – fuel cells, artificial fertilizers and clean exhaust

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2007 to Gerhard Ertl of the Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany "for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces".

The 2007 Ig Nobel Chemistry prize winner was Mayu Yamamoto (International Medical Centre of Japan) for developing a way to extract vanillin (vanilla fragrance and flavour) from cow dung. The 2007 Ig Nobel Prize winners were announced 5th October 2007 and prizes prizes awarded at Harvard in America. To celebrate, a local ice cream bar put on a tasting session of a new flavour, Yum-A-Moto Vanilla Twist, concocted in honour of the 2007 Ig Nobel Chemistry Prize winner Mayu Yamamoto. The mind boggles.

I've translated the contents of hydrogenium and helium into simplified Chinese from your site but not published on anywhere. I want to get the permission from the author in order to submit it on the Internet. Could I?

The attachment is able to be downloaded, but you should change the extensions into ".zip" before you open it.

Quite by chance I noticed that at Simon Fraser University in Canada members of staff in the Department got together to make a periodic table quilt. Looks to be about 6 feet across. I wonder if it will be updated for the latest elements?

If you go to the SFU site, click on any element to see that panel in more detail. Anyone else made a quilt like this?

...as I see the WebElements A6 size periodic table card (laminated, naturally) is the logo for the FaceBook Group "The united nerd front" - A place for nerds to unite. (if you have a mini-periodic table you get gold card membership).