bedan Posted September 30, 2005 Report Share Posted September 30, 2005 Regarding the powersource of the UFO's. I noticed you've chosen to call the element Xenonium-122. Catchy name. However, as a well oriented chemist, elements with the atomic number of 122 cannot exist in our universe, cause atoms cannot form 8 energylevels, refer to the periodical system. (they just can't, I can be longwinded about this but I'll keep it short). If you STILL want to be sci-fi about this (sci-fi is good anyways ), you could choose an element that would have the same properties as atomic fuel, and with 8 energylevels. Maybe the aliens found out a way to make it. That would make "Eka-Uranium-124"or"Eka-Plutonium-126" The element of 122, or Eka-Thorium, would share properties with Thorium, and would be a silvery white metal. As would be the issue with most of these metals with high atomic numbers. Either silvery white, greyish or dark metallic. However, none of these elements would form a crystal (if they were actually physically possible to manufacture) and would be highly radioactive and unstable, with a half-life of yoktoseconds with decimals. If you want to find out some better names you can get at these links. I will also post a link to a page where they've actually MADE elerium-115, or Ununpentium as it is called in chemistry-lingo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ununpentiumhttp://www-cms.llnl.gov/e113_115/images.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bedan Posted September 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2005 And oh, the mythos of Elerium-115 is taken from the whole UFO-conspiracy thingy. And they suggested that such an element was used to produce antimatter. You can read into the subject of antimatter here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter Things as these would look cool in the game IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Blehm 98] Posted September 30, 2005 Report Share Posted September 30, 2005 hmmm, once i get my postrights back today i shall post about this in our thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astyanax Posted September 30, 2005 Report Share Posted September 30, 2005 (edited) Good points, bedan! But to tell you the truth these ideas have been discussed in great detail... In actuality, "122" does not refer to atomic number or mass of the substance; it instead refers to a scientific experiment. Xenium is a material unknown to terrestrial life, and its properties are not well understood, which is part of the reason why traditional chemistry nomenclature is not used. Edited September 30, 2005 by Astyanax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Blehm 98] Posted October 1, 2005 Report Share Posted October 1, 2005 yeah, i was wondering exactly why it was 122 yet wasn't actually an element but this is still a useful topic though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Azrael Posted October 1, 2005 Report Share Posted October 1, 2005 ...Not really... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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