What name for Element 119? - Periodic Table of Videos

[@lizziec38]

Saw this and panicked thinking I’d missed the discovery

[@willemvandebeek]

Clickbait indeed. :)

[@theblackbaron4119]

It was the element of suprise all along. Ha! Suprise!

[@ehsnils]

Haranium would be an unfortunate name since it would sound much like haram.

[@FentForEnt]

​@@ehsnilsMohammad respawning after element 119 comes out

[@dhananjaysawant4646]

Same

[@hammerth1421]

I like the professor's attention to the international importance of nomenclature. Not everyone can pronounce a name just because people in the English-speaking West can. I'm lucky to be German, but many people internationally already struggle with the German and Dutch names in the name reactions of organic chemistry.

[@4jonah]

I guess Squirrelium is off the table

[@Kelnx]

@@4jonah Not if it's discovered in Tennessee. Although Dollyium would probably come first.

[@carultch]

If Element 138 is discovered before Element 137, we totally need to name it Feynmanium. It would fit perfectly with his sense of humor to have an element he predicted couldn't exist, be named after him.

[@mikamiria6538]

It will be uringhesium

[@Preinstallable]

nuclear levels of postmortem trolling

[@오치치577]

​@@mikamiria6538then 3000 is Mm, Moongtangium

[@roybm3124]

I vote for Neilium

[@periodicvideos]

Surely just NEIL

[@pattheplanter]

Neilon, a noble gas.

[@TheDriller-Killer]

​@@pattheplanterEspecially after curry and beer night 😂😂😂

[@kersplody7435]

bob

[@TheDriller-Killer]

@@kersplody7435 But only the way Rowan Atkinson pronounces it 😂😂😂

[@OrchestrationOnline]

Poliakovium gets my vote.

[@tildessmoo]

Simultaneously dreading and looking forward to the day.

[@modaljazz59]

As we know Glenn Seaborg and perhaps Einstein were still alive when the elements were named after their names 🎉❤

[@kraio-sfu]

@@modaljazz59as was Oganessian

[@robsamsully2689]

I think Martynium is a lil' easier to pronounce tho

[@gaius_enceladus]

@OrchestrationOnline - Mine too!

[@timseguine2]

Professor Poliakoff gave such a wonderfully tactful response to your name suggestion.

[@ec1628]

What a wonderful treat! A surprise Q & A with the professor.

[@periodicvideos]

Some more on the way

[@sirmanki]

@@periodicvideos That's amazing to hear!

[@WilliamFord972]

@@periodicvideosYESSSS

[@thisisnowtakentoo]

"Well, fortunately, you're not dead" I laughed out loud when I heard that!

[@CsendesMark]

It is also not a rule, see Seaborgium and Oganesson (Yuri Oganessian is still living)

[@VarkaTheDragon]

Brutal but not wrong! Hahahaha

[@TehF0cus]

Ive been subscribed for a ridiculous amount of years. To see Professor Poliakoff still alive and making videos always brings joy to me. Some of the few people I wish I could shake hands with some day.

[@tbird-z1r]

A ridiculous 'number' of years. Although not compulsory, it sounds less like some street thug.

[@GarzaG]

3:12 "Well, fortunately, you're not dead." 😂 True words. Science really prefers the legendary deceased to name significant findings! (In light of this, please do not die for #119)

[@ehsnils]

I'd also prefer that it's a scientist that donates the name.

[@Nethershaw]

@@ehsnils It was obviously meant to be tongue-in-cheek.

[@KairuHakubi]

I hope whoever discovers it names it after Putin (wishful thinking that he'll qualify)

[@AkhilStark267]

Oh thanks for telling us not to die. Otherwise we would have 😮

[@zemerick]

Continuing on to the bit about the value of creating these elements: The best way to test something, and to find differences ( which can lead to gigantic and fundamental changes to our understanding; see both Relativity and Quantum Mechanics ), is to test at the extremes. We see the same in many other places. For example, in computers, a lot of bugs happen at the extremes, such as what happens when a number reaches its maximum. Systems can often behave very simply and well in the normal range, but when you push beyond it gets really interesting. That's one of the biggest hopes with things like CERN and the creation of heavier elements. All of the scientists are constantly hoping to see something they do NOT expect. That's where the fun starts. It's perfectly possible that the discovery of element 119 will unlock a new understanding of the universe in a way that permits faster than light travel, or any other number of technologies.

[@filip0x0a98]

I like that analogy. May I ask what field do you work in?

[@zemerick]

@@filip0x0a98 Video Game QA

[@ChristopherMarrash]

RIKEN is the lab in Japan that is working of a discovery of 119 and/or 120, they don’t have to wait in a queue to use their tools like Berkeley.

[@PatGunn]

"Conflict" is quite a euphemism

[@jozsefnemedi8472]

Strangely I voted for poliakoffium before the video with the symbol Pk... Wasn't Seaborg still alive when 106 was named?

[@nanamacapagal8342]

Not just 106, Oganessian is still alive for element 118

[@RaytheonTechnologies_Official]

As is Professor James T. Itanium

[@4thalt]

Haranium is actually a really cool name.

[@periodicvideos]

Okay - that's one vote!

[@Chess_and_Universe_Astronomy]

Kannadium? (Who first put forth the idea/theory of atoms) Daltonium? (Who first put forth scientific postulates for matter and atoms) Nobium? (Bengali Nobo= New)

[@niceride]

HaHa very funny

[@modaljazz59]

I channel the Professor when I say, "Haranium, it sounds a bit like "harangue". I quite like it."

[@Martial-Mat]

That little laugh at the end was charming.

[@hafronskaiceland9185]

Pererium (Pe) after Marguérite Perer, discoverer of francium, the lighter homologue of element 119.

[@cdl0]

Brilliant idea: This is by far the best suggestion I have seen in the comments.

[@yerkeruiter]

People only seem to only think of "-ium" names, but it's sooo last millennium to name things like that. Oganesson luckily avoided this merely by being in the group of Noble Gas. Nobody comes up with actual **names** anymore, which makes it dull. The real question is where will this 119th element go on the periodic table? A new bar for this lonely element will make it look like it's just an appendage like Helium and Hydrogen, at least for a while. We're in a new age, with superheavy elements. Elements that for over half a century have boggled our scientific minds as well as our spiritual minds. We have potential. We just have zero imagination. We also have no idea how these last dozen elements behave and some might have properties we never thought of classifying.

[@Thoran666]

Element names are always interesting. Like phosphorus meaning light-bearer because it glowed when discovered.

[@grahamnancledra7036]

I've always thought that an element has never been named after one of the greatest discoverer of Elements. My fellow Cornishman and my Hero. Sir Humphry Davy!

[@KPW2137]

Coming from a less than serious RPG session I had a while ago: some of these elements are so unstable, you could call one of them nonsensium. Or bullshitium in case it was claimed to have some super incredible properties that were not confirmed in the further research.

[@pattheplanter]

Riken is in the city of Wako in Japan, so wakium is possible.

[@guitarslim56]

All future elements will have a corporate sponsor. Fedexium. Disneyium. Timhortonium.

[@Lucius_Chiaraviglio]

Careful -- you may be speaking more truthfully than you think . . . .

[@abigailcooling6604]

Amazonium, DHLium, Visa Cash Appium

[@CitizenAyellowblue]

Arbyum.

[@RaytheonTechnologies_Official]

If Penthouse sponsored it, it could be Pentium

[@Lucius_Chiaraviglio]

@@RaytheonTechnologies_Official Shouldn't we reserve that for an element that doesn't divide correctly?

[@TranceKeeper1788]

call element 119 "Ekplixium" with the chemical symbol "AH". google search says "Ekplixi" is the Greek word for "Surprise" so the periodic table could have a literal element of surprise , paying off the old joke

[@bengoodwin2141]

This is my favorite so far! "Surprise! There's another row!"

[@ActuatedGear]

You're terrible. I like you.

[@pattheplanter]

Or "arydearwatsonium"?

[@TranceKeeper1788]

@@ActuatedGear thank you one person lol

[@Blak2blue]

😂🤣

[@HamburgerAmy]

i haven't seen your videos in the better part of 10 years and just thought about Sir Martyn and hoped he was still alive. what am i worried about.....man hasn't aged a day, it's the power of the crazy hair i guess.

[@edward_dantonio]

Dear Professor, let me suggest the following. Democritusium for Element-119 and Poliakoffium for Element-120. We should have you positioned right after the Ancient Greek philosopher Democritus that used the word “atomos” in the his viewpoint for the Atomic Theory of Matter, meaning an atom is a discrete unit.

[@realcommiecat7]

I went to GSI this past summer, and while I wasn't able to see the actual accelerator becuase they were running it, I did learn about the processes and the cancer treatment with carbon ions! What a great place.

[@slowneutron6163]

One Nineteenium. You are welcome.

[@joshgreen2164]

Got to love the Professor!!

[@shawnbaxter1001]

Great Vid guys! Good laugh at the end....glad you are not dead either!

[@DarthVador2023]

Always love your videos!

[@StingrayTomsFlorida]

Woo hoo! New video.

[@Aging_Geek]

On the flip side, the exteneding of the periodic table to higher numbers may (probably) produce a sweet spot of more stable elements and they could be very useful in ways we can't imagine.

[@dembro27]

Element 119: Expensium. Element 120: Bankruptium.

[@jackalbright4599]

0:42 I wonder how that went? Did the US just ghost Russia and not answer their calls or emails? Or was it a professional breakup? "I'm sorry Rosey (Russia Lab) but, my dad (US Gov) said we can't date anymore. I'll always remember the nights we had with my Super Heavy Element in Dubna😢"

[@MrMctastics]

Some goodbye novichok (miss you ✉️❤️☢️💀)

[@pattheplanter]

After 30 years of co-operation, I think the 91 year old Oganessian must be quite annoyed but described it in diplomatic terms. I am sure there were many frustrated emails in both directions. ‘Through no fault of the teams,’ Stoyer says, ‘the Covid-19 pandemic and the political situation [caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine] curtailed travel between the countries’. Without the ability to travel, the US and Russians couldn’t collaborate as effectively, and with the breakdown in diplomacy between the east and west, US government laboratories can’t supply the Superheavy Element Factory with the target material. ‘The situation is actually not easy in the current turbulent environment,’ Oganessian told Chemistry World last year. ‘We cannot cooperate with [LLNL] and Oak Ridge because … JINR is located in Russia.’

[@MegaSpartan007]

Seaborgium was named while Seaborg was alive. IIRC Periodic videos did a video on it.

[@fep_ptcp883]

Also 118 Oganesson

[@faithgrins]

Glenn Seaborg devised the placement of the actinide and lanthanide series on the periodic table and led the laboratory that discovered 10 of the transuranic elements. Brady's done a lot for the sciences, but I'm not sure if he's on that level.

[@spacejunk2186]

These elements have longer proton numbers in digits than their lifetime has attoseconds.

[@Groink1]

Are you sure that is true? 118 is almost a millisecond, 120 will be "quite stable" as well.

[@FerdinandFake]

Might get a lucky isotope

[@Timrath]

Regarding the naming, there are still a bunch of Greco-Roman gods left to choose from. We've already had Uranium, Plutonium, Neptunium, Palladium, Promethium, Cerium, Iridium, Helium, Selenium, Mercury and Titanium. Now we could complete the set with Hephaestium, Vulcanium, Apollonium, Cyclopium, Cronium, Saturnium...

[@josephvinod7157]

Eagerly waiting for a video on the nobel prize for chemistry 2024

[@KitagumaIgen]

To the value of these short-lived elements: they are a stepping-stone towards the "island of stability" where elements should have longer lifetimes and we might get to eventually produce unobtanium and other elements with who knows what properties.

[@slyfoxchemistry]

Amazing video well done

[@alexcarniglia8141]

Thanks for the video.

[@kushagra64]

When will we get “daltonium”?

[@PranavViswanathan]

I really do think that we ought to honor Al Ghiorso on the table, given that Seaborg got his own element. If you know anything about the history of the superheavies, you know what an impact he had on their discovery.

[@AluminumOxide]

2:31 sounds like you said "What would you like element 119 to be Cold?"!!!

[@SuperAngelofglory]

I believe that, when new elements will be discovered, they should return to the dawns of chemistry and name elements after the pioneers of the field: Davyum, Daltonium, Lavoisierium, Thenardium, Gaylusaacyum (ok, a mouthfull that), Scheelium, Cavendishium, Priestleyum, Lomonosovium, Voltium, Wohlerium, Kekulium, Bunsenium etc. They surely earned the right!

[@Brian-----]

It MUST be named for the Professor 🙂

[@brianmccusker3852]

How about Bobsyouruncleanium?

[@pahom2]

Oganesson is named after a living person. Brady don't give up!

[@JenniferStreetArt]

Just wondering, what about Fermi Lab and Lawrence Livermore, do they have this capability ? Great Video as always. Thank You ❤

[@aljawad]

What about Oganesson (Og 118), I trust Yuri Oganessian is still alive?? As for element 119, how about naming it after Issac Newton?

[@carultch]

He is still alive. He was even a guest on this channel.

[@RFC3514]

Forget element 119, we need to start a campaign to rename element 101 "Neilium".

[@DimasFajar-ns4vb]

yeah more bridge or railroad will be amazing sir

[@andrzejr82]

I have a question. With the heaviest elements, the numbers of atoms produced are tiny, and the detection happens by detecting the radioactive decay products. If the elements 119 or 120 do find themselves in the island of stability, and their half life is, say, a few years - how will we detect those few atoms that will be produced?

[@sycksyngyrl]

How many elements do you think can ever be discovered in total? Are the possibilities infinite or finite?

[@chahleybros]

Given the mass and potential size of 119's atom, using a latin equivalent to "Massive" would probably be fitting, assuming it's the first element we find after 118. Especially since it very well may be the last Alkali we discover for centuries to come. Something like "Tantamium" (from Tantam; Massive), or "Gravisium" (Gravis; Heavy).

[@littlejefe494]

Dr Rictoffen is very proud of this discovery.

[@DM_Andy]

Brady, you might not get an element but I'm surprised you don't already have an asteroid named after you. You need to do more astronomy videos.

[@periodicvideos]

Ha ha. I don’t think I could make any more astronomy videos. But plenty of ACTUAL scientists are more worthy than a fanboy like me.

[@0P0wnage]

cant wait for thoes new elements to drop

[@LDT2001]

Well that title tricked me. Greetings from the US!

[@bigsarge2085]

Planckium is cool!

[@albertodeangelis9291]

Is it possible to determine the chemical properties, such as different oxidation states.., of these new elements?

[@red.aries1444]

Element 119 and 120 would fill up the 8 s-orbital, they should have the same oxidation states as in the first and second group above. It really gets interesting with element 123 when a new g-orbital is introduced.

[@VideoNOLA]

Should science use the word "discovery" to describe the "synthesis" of an element that nature likely never created by itself?

[@bertarissen6568]

I think it’s good for the world to explore if there is “an island of stability.”

[@TheOnyxFlame]

Is there no longer any momentum for calling it Davyum?

[@williamsquires3070]

How about Martynium? 😀

[@explorer914]

I've known for some time that you accelerate atoms of one element into a target. But how and when was that process discovered??

[@combycat]

Well, when we discover it we’ll need to see its properties so we can name it after that! Like phosphorus for light bearer! Also, I’d really love to discover a blue halogen that maybe isn’t radioactive?

[@iffracem]

Unobtainium Because that's what it is right now.

[@adenwellsmith6908]

Fivefactorium for Element 120

[@129140163]

Chemical symbol Ff

[@a5209283]

I'd quite like element 119 to be called Pereyium after Marguerite Perey. She discovered Francium which would be directly above 119 in the periodic table.

[@davidbandler]

Speaking of super-heavy elements, I wonder what the theoretical limit is where an element becomes so super-heavy that its own mass and forces overcome decay. And at what point an element was so super-heavy, it would initiate fusion or the attraction of particles on its own.

[@yurioxford2416]

I don't know but I am happy to know another element is being added to the Periodic Table that's really cool 1997 there were 103 today in 2024 there 118 science has advanced

[@nicholasharvey1232]

Is there a Hawkinginum yet?

[@kidmohair8151]

peopleonium and terreium (with a side-suggestion of catastrophium)

[@thelocalsage]

It does sadden me that scientific names for things, including the elements, don’t leave room for poetics anymore. Goethe named the types of clouds, and they’re so lovely to talk about. These elements are difficult to study so it makes sense we don’t name them based on properties, but they all still seem so inelegant and usually named after people who already have plenty of things named after them

[@penguinphysics]

In my chemistry class I include elements 119 and 120 which I call PENGUINIUM and SPEEDSKATIUM. They are imaginary so I can ask questions about them and the students cannot cheat with Google 😊🐧

[@kylegonewild]

Always love hearing the professor's thoughts. Amazing he came up with a reasonable answer to the Bradyium question and resisted to urge to just chuckle. Not what would have came to my mind first!

[@water_alias]

Bradium!

[@SAMURIADI]

can we not name it ending with "nium"? i get why we do but we have so many already and a uniqe name on par with "copper" "zinc" "chlorine" would be so refreshing

[@zacklewis342]

Two of the last four didn't get "ium" names.

[@sydhenderson6753]

@@zacklewis342 IUPAC for a while insisted all new elements should end in -ium but thankfully changed their minds about the halogens and noble gasses (though oganesson may not be one). However elements expected to be metals still do. I still insist copernicium should have been named copernicum since there's no "i" in his name and the second "c" should be hard. There is precedent for this, since platinum, lanthanum, and molybdenum don't end in -ium.

[@lukestevens9375]

@@sydhenderson6753 Also aluminum in North America.

[@OzOMega]

"ite" incoming!

[@SAMURIADI]

@lukestevens9375 in america we say aloom-inn-uhm. not all-u-min-ium the pronounced "ium" like uranium part isnt in american so it gets a pass

[@Brice23]

When the professor answered the question with a firm "I think you are completely misunderstanding why..." I had a sudden flashback to my own time in college, indeed to a certain math professor who had the particular joy of teaching .. ehh.. me. 😬

[@joeg579]

Those are the best lectures!

[@Bludgeoned2DEATH2]

What a tragedy of science progression that our partnership with the JINR is a casualty of this war.

[@TheNoiseySpectator]

It is not just the war. Putin's current incompetence as a ruler is letting all kinds of progressive aspects of Russian government and society wither away. Even if he hadn't invaded Ukrane, Russia is falling in status into being a second world nation, and may very well end up as a third world country 😢.

[@modaljazz59]

Has anyone tried to generate new elements another way? By aiming the beam of atoms at each other, or by banging two beams at the same time at the target? Also is there a reason the target has to be flat? Couldn't it be C#? Or shaped like an ice cream cone?

[@delmar58]

How about nientinium?

[@TheNoiseySpectator]

What about _Centi_ - nintinium? Or in Roman numerals, "Cixxium"?

[@jtelliso]

These Q&As are fun. More?

[@doomsdayrabbit4398]

Can we get one with a J?

[@carultch]

We almost did, but Nihonium got named after Japan's endonym instead of its exonym. Japonium was a proposed name for it. The reason J is such a rare letter on the periodic table, is that there is no J in the original Latin alphabet. Works today that use J, used Ɪ in its place.

[@modaljazz59]

Is there such thing as half a proton?

[@BobSmith-s7j]

Not really. Protons are made up of three quarks, and once you start messing with the configuration of the quarks that's not a proton any more.

[@alexisdespland4939]

what should these elements be called.

[@ydne]

119 - Stanfordium? Might the the longest linear accelerator in the world, which is in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, at Stanford University in Palo Alto California, United States, do the job?

[@davidgustavsson4000]

When people say scientific collaboration prevents war, they forget that the leaders of the world are not scientists.

[@davefried]

Unobtainium

[@BoyKhongklai]

Springrollium, Pancakium, Donium, Currium

[@LogicalMusicman]

What name for 119? Logicalis Musicmanius, of course!

[@James-bw4np]

I vote for element Bob. Add an -ium at the end if you must. Bobium, snerk!

[@rtttrt76]

It is not a conflict. It is war .

[@AkiSan0]

im all for Oakum!

[@mrslinkydragon9910]

Youd think they would repurpose the lhc for making elements

[@sydhenderson6753]

Davium, since Sir Humphrey Davy isolated so many alkali metals, including sodium and potassium.

[@68024]

"Fortunately you're not dead" 🤣

[@Arsenicisgay33]

Newtonium!!

[@ZomBeeNature]

How about Quantium?

[@kwanarchive]

Or Kwantium.

[@carultch]

@@kwanarchive We need a chance to get a permanent Q on the periodic table.