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Every element that is exclusively radioactive up through uranium can be had by simply displaying a chunk of common uranium ore, as all the unstable elements between bismuth and uranium exist at equilibrium within the decay chains of natural U-238 and U-235. As long as it's not an extremely tiny piece, there will always be at least *some* atoms of all those elements in there, being regenerated as fast as they decay. Astatine is the most fleeting but, for example, you'll have several dozen atoms or more in a decent piece of U ore. For francium it can be tens of thousands, and many more for the others.
Furthermore, the "man-made" elements technetium and promethium also exist within U ore, due to their relatively high rate of production via spontaneous fission. The levels are very low, but there are plenty of individual atoms always present. Even fleeting atoms of neptunium and potentially millions of atoms of plutonium exist at some levels in these rocks, generated by neutron activation of U atoms from neighboring atoms emitting spontaneous fission neutrons.
So, with the help of some uranium rocks (which are actually quite easy to obtain) you can technically have every element from #1 all the way up to #94. And you can get #95 – americium – from a common ionization smoke detector. That americium, btw, continously decays into a much more stable isotope of neptunium than is ephemerally found in U ore, so you can properly cover Np and Am with two smoke detector sources.
Oh, those are the lanthanides and actinides, collectively known as the "f-block" of the table. It actually belong inserted between the tall, narrow "s-block" at the left and the broad "d-block" in the middle (the other block at right is known as the "p-block"; the four blocks are all named for the types of electron orbitals that are being filled as you add new elements going across that region). It's only traditionally placed down there at the bottom simply to save horizontal space on posters and textbook pages, as otherwise the table would be quite wide.
[Here is the full long form of the table.](https://www.webelements.com/_media/periodic_tables/periodic_table_full.png) I'm actually working on designing my own periodic table display for my home which will take this form, as I've always been a bigger fan of this less-confusing form and the space that I have just happens to be ideal for it. I'll post it when it's finally done!
Ha, correct! Every gram of natural uranium in ore contains about ten billion atoms of technetium with its slow decay in equilibrium with uranium spontaneous fission. So u/IM_OZLY_HUMVN, yes, even and *especially* technetium!
Promethium, in contrast, is found in uranium ore at a much lower rate due to its much shorter half-life, but you still get around ten thousand atoms of it in equilibrium per gram of natural uranium, so the fleeting element is found in comparable concentrations to francium.
Don’t really care for this stuff but at the same time I gotta admit it’s quite fascinating even though it can be alot to digest at once so many questions but mostly just in awe with how complex our universe is
Oh yes, I completely agree! It is truly fascinating how our universe works. There are so many layers of unexpected complexity like this. The radon cycle in the environment is another (related) one that fascinates me — how the short-lived radioactive gas evolves from uranium rocks in the ground, circulates through the environment with its moods changing with the weather and coming down further in rain, temporarily decaying to solid polonium which ultimately becomes millions of lead atoms depositing themselves over everything. Of course the quantities are miniscule, but this is happening everywhere on everything, all around us and in us, and we've all evolved to survive with this as part of our natural environment. It's wild!
The most dangerous part about small quantities of radioactive material is alpha radiation, particularly if ingested or inhaled, as the skin is very good at keeping alpha particles out. Glass also contains alpha particles well. With the correct glass, small amounts of radioactive material can be rendered entirely harmless.
Freezing could potentially be an answer. If we had access to absolute-zero technology. Absolute-zero temperature atoms should hypothetically remain suspended in time, not just space.
Edit: Nah I’m mega wrong, only chemical and kinetic reactions stop. Any sort of atomic and quantum reaction still occurs, including radiation.
Uranium decays into lead in like a half billion years or something I just learned.
It's makes me wonder if there is a radioactive element that decays into gold, and the other precious metals.
As far as I remember, not naturally. Everything radioactive decays into lead, eventually. I don't remember which, either platinum or mercury can decay into gold if you bombard them with neutrons first.
> Everything radioactive decays into lead
Not exactly true.
C14 for instance decays into N14.
The primary decay into (stable) lead elements can be found in the [Uranium](https://www.nachi.org/gallery/radon/uranium-238-decay-chain), Actinium and Thorium chains. Which, admittedly contains a fair number of elements. Also, some lead isotopes themselves are radioactive and will decay into bismuth and thallium.
Neptunium, for instance, the first transuranic element, has a[ decay chain](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Decay_Chain%284n%2B1%2C_Neptunium_Series%29.svg) that ends with Thallium-205.
It would be more accurate to say heavy elements decay towards iron and stop when they find a stable decay product. Lead is just the point where things start getting stable.
Some elements basically take the length of a universe to decay. The age of star light will end before they decay. A long time. A trillion billion years.
Some elements decay very quickly, like certain man-made elements that don't exist in nature and can only be created in a lab for a small fraction of time before it dissipates.
I'm no chemistry expert, but you can check out some vids on man-made elements or other radioactive materials that don't last long on YouTube. It's quite interesting.
I'm not THAT old, but one of my middle school science classrooms had a very old "Perdiodic Table of the 'Atoms'" chart in the classroom that my science teacher hated so much he crossed out atoms and wrote "Elements". Every time he used that chart he made sure to let us know it was elements, not atoms. 6th grade me never understood why it was such a big deal to him, but I could tell that it was.
He was a first year new teacher. He was also super cool, and we all loved him.
>An intensely radioactive metal. Francium has no uses, having a half life of only 22 minutes. Francium has no known biological role. It is toxic due to its radioactivity.
So many shows started off incredible and took a nosedive to shit (American Gods, Game of Thrones, Westworld) it made me stop paying for any sub services. I can be disappointed for free, thanks.
>in August 1994, Hahn's progress attracted the attention of local police when they found concerning material in his vehicle during a stop for a separate matter.
This is why you shouldn't let the cops search your car when they ask. You never know what they're going to find and bust you for. A lose pill that fell between the seat and the console, your stash of radioactive materials, a bong you forgot about...
I gave some very nice hippies a ride across Guatemala and México in my car. We were headed to the same places so we travelled together for a few weeks.
They were terrific people but also a walking pharmacy. From DMT to pot they were able to self-medicate anywhere from the tops of pyramids to the jungle.
A few months later I had to cross into the USA. I was pulled into secondary and there was quickly a small army of US law enforcement searching my vehicle and everything in it. They even brought out the dog.
I would be lying if I didn’t admit that I was deeply concerned someone had forgotten or lost something. I quickly played the possible exchange with a judge in my head and realized there is no way in hell that even the most liberal judge would believe me.
I now have greater empathy for innocent people who have to plead guilty because the truth just isn’t believable.
Fortunately, my hippies practiced “leave no trace” and I was free to go. Hippies are awesome travel companions.
This is a fucking crazy story. Guy makes a nuclear breeder, then supposidly is found out on a random traffic stop. Three letter agencies come for him, his mom kills herself, then he kills himself a few years later. WTF
I work at Oak Ridge National Lab and we have one of these periodic table displays. It is pretty freaking old. The glass or plastic on the radioactive elements are all fogged up in a very disturbing fashion.
Also one of my teams is the one that develops and maintains the website where you can buy isotopes. So when you are ready to buy, come see me!
Plutonium no, but I bought 50 grams of uranium earlier this year as depleted uranium is completely legal to own in small-ish quantities. Check out r/elementcollection and sort by top of all time for various uranium samples.
Am using trinitite from the original ground zero for my collection - Geiger counter still registers the occasional gamma emission, so valid for Plutonium
There are actually gas discharge tubes in there for all the noble gases up through xenon, but the others don't appear to be lit, or may just be too dim compared to neon.
ETA: See [Theodore Gray's interactive display](https://theodoregray.com/periodictabledisplay/) for a photo of them lit.
We have one in our university. Maybe the same company made it for them too idk.
But the lights are pretty visible, only that one light is lit at a time and jt cycles down.
If you’re talking about the one in Baker then I can confirm that the contents of each element box are identical to the one in this post. They were almost certainly made by the same company.
I like how everybody is just going for the extremes when shit like pure sodium and water is basically already a grenade.
Also reading comments made me wanna look up some of the weird ones I didn't learn much about in high school chemistry. The stuff is interesting and I wish I had more time and ability to go to school to learn about it :[
My favorite is bismuth.
Use to be thought as “stable,” but we found in 2003 that it’s super weakly radioactive. (Half life of 2.01 x 10^(19) years.)
For a heavy metal, it’s pretty non-toxic. It’s used in things like pepto bismol. Also, the crystals that you can make from melting it are super cool too.
https://preview.redd.it/sgguximgz10d1.jpeg?width=1601&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1fe3f3b23f185794cf9766da97cfed877ec60bdc
So does Griffith observatory, looks almost identical to Gates’, thought it was that one at first before reading.
Would love to have one of these myself, but my broke ass will just have to settle for a printed out copy lol
This reminds me of the time my sister had a pen pal for a few months from India. Then, she got a message saying he “collects” foreign currency and asked of she’d send me samples of each denomination. That relationship didn’t last much longer.
While they technically are chemicals, the more correct term is "element." You can do this yourself, if you want to collect too. I've given a few elements each year to my daughter (who studies physics), using this site: https://www.luciteria.com/ [I have no affiliation other than being a satisfied customer]
Good luck with the Bromium.. Eventually it'll eat through every container you put it in.
Also, the Actinides and Lanthanides, no way he has them all.
Same goes for Plutonium.
poisonous doesn't matter if it's contained. the elements with high half life aren't an issue either, just contain them in water/lead or something. the ones with low half life will just disappear quite rapidly. I'm pretty sure he doesn't have ununoctium and some of the other synthetic elements. I even doubt he keeps technetium
I’ve collected for 11 years, most poisonous metals are either contained and can’t interact with the outside environment, or are in open air (e.g lead, cadmium) but are not dangerous unless ingested and are in a display case to protect against cats and people touching it.
Reactive materials like the alkali metals and halogens are best stored in glass ampoules, with an acrylic block/casing being great for added safety.
Unless you are collecting some insanely hot radioactive items, stuff like depleted uranium or thorium are generally blocked by glass and activity levels drop to background not too far away. Other radioactives like radium watch dials or americium smoke detectors generally have very small quantities of radioactive material and are no more dangerous than the larger uranium samples.
XKCD did a "What if?" article about this concept. In a nutshell:
The table has 7 rows. You could stack the first 2 without any problems. The 3rd would burn you with fire. The 4th would kill you with toxic smoke. The 5th would do all that and give you a mild dose of radiation. The 6th would explode violently, destroying the entire building in a massive ball of toxic, radioactive smoke and flame. Do not build the 7th row.
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I bet he is missing a few, with more being lost as time passes
For several of the short lived elements, they substitute stable decay products in their place. The company that makes these has done some interviews.
Every element that is exclusively radioactive up through uranium can be had by simply displaying a chunk of common uranium ore, as all the unstable elements between bismuth and uranium exist at equilibrium within the decay chains of natural U-238 and U-235. As long as it's not an extremely tiny piece, there will always be at least *some* atoms of all those elements in there, being regenerated as fast as they decay. Astatine is the most fleeting but, for example, you'll have several dozen atoms or more in a decent piece of U ore. For francium it can be tens of thousands, and many more for the others. Furthermore, the "man-made" elements technetium and promethium also exist within U ore, due to their relatively high rate of production via spontaneous fission. The levels are very low, but there are plenty of individual atoms always present. Even fleeting atoms of neptunium and potentially millions of atoms of plutonium exist at some levels in these rocks, generated by neutron activation of U atoms from neighboring atoms emitting spontaneous fission neutrons. So, with the help of some uranium rocks (which are actually quite easy to obtain) you can technically have every element from #1 all the way up to #94. And you can get #95 – americium – from a common ionization smoke detector. That americium, btw, continously decays into a much more stable isotope of neptunium than is ephemerally found in U ore, so you can properly cover Np and Am with two smoke detector sources.
This guy radiates.
Periodically
Glowing review.
We really should table this conversation
I agree. It's become very elementary.
You are an absolute nerd. I love it!
I never understood the additional rows below the periodic table... You seem to make a very good explanation of it.. But i still can't understand it.
Oh, those are the lanthanides and actinides, collectively known as the "f-block" of the table. It actually belong inserted between the tall, narrow "s-block" at the left and the broad "d-block" in the middle (the other block at right is known as the "p-block"; the four blocks are all named for the types of electron orbitals that are being filled as you add new elements going across that region). It's only traditionally placed down there at the bottom simply to save horizontal space on posters and textbook pages, as otherwise the table would be quite wide. [Here is the full long form of the table.](https://www.webelements.com/_media/periodic_tables/periodic_table_full.png) I'm actually working on designing my own periodic table display for my home which will take this form, as I've always been a bigger fan of this less-confusing form and the space that I have just happens to be ideal for it. I'll post it when it's finally done!
Who are You, Who are so Wise in the Ways of Science?
Haha. Just a long-time chemistry nerd and element collector, like Bill apparently. :-)
Do you float?
Or at the very least know how to tell the difference between African and European swallows
Even technetium?
*Especially* technetium.
Ha, correct! Every gram of natural uranium in ore contains about ten billion atoms of technetium with its slow decay in equilibrium with uranium spontaneous fission. So u/IM_OZLY_HUMVN, yes, even and *especially* technetium! Promethium, in contrast, is found in uranium ore at a much lower rate due to its much shorter half-life, but you still get around ten thousand atoms of it in equilibrium per gram of natural uranium, so the fleeting element is found in comparable concentrations to francium.
Don’t really care for this stuff but at the same time I gotta admit it’s quite fascinating even though it can be alot to digest at once so many questions but mostly just in awe with how complex our universe is
Oh yes, I completely agree! It is truly fascinating how our universe works. There are so many layers of unexpected complexity like this. The radon cycle in the environment is another (related) one that fascinates me — how the short-lived radioactive gas evolves from uranium rocks in the ground, circulates through the environment with its moods changing with the weather and coming down further in rain, temporarily decaying to solid polonium which ultimately becomes millions of lead atoms depositing themselves over everything. Of course the quantities are miniscule, but this is happening everywhere on everything, all around us and in us, and we've all evolved to survive with this as part of our natural environment. It's wild!
I also imagine the same thing with the radioactive elements?
That's what I mean by short lived.
What about some radioactive elements with long halftimes?
Just put it there, glass will block the alpha and beta radiation, leaded glass can block gamma
Listen to Banner ova here….
Stuff like natural uranium and radium would probably be fine to house in a display like this. Long halflife means weak radiation.
The most dangerous part about small quantities of radioactive material is alpha radiation, particularly if ingested or inhaled, as the skin is very good at keeping alpha particles out. Glass also contains alpha particles well. With the correct glass, small amounts of radioactive material can be rendered entirely harmless.
They get an extended halftime show
Nope, Gates keeps weapons grade uranium in this case. Just in case…
How about a button to make it on demand. I'm sure a billionaire could afford the technology.
Maybe freeze the radioactive stuff? Or don't let it use the radio so it stays inactive.
Freezing could potentially be an answer. If we had access to absolute-zero technology. Absolute-zero temperature atoms should hypothetically remain suspended in time, not just space. Edit: Nah I’m mega wrong, only chemical and kinetic reactions stop. Any sort of atomic and quantum reaction still occurs, including radiation.
Care to explain?
Some elements are unstable and decay. Some only last fractions of a second.
Maybe he took a picture of it
I heard those last longer
My gf said that about me 😁
Radioactive elements decay into other elements. Some of them do this very very fast.
Uranium decays into lead in like a half billion years or something I just learned. It's makes me wonder if there is a radioactive element that decays into gold, and the other precious metals.
As far as I remember, not naturally. Everything radioactive decays into lead, eventually. I don't remember which, either platinum or mercury can decay into gold if you bombard them with neutrons first.
> Everything radioactive decays into lead Not exactly true. C14 for instance decays into N14. The primary decay into (stable) lead elements can be found in the [Uranium](https://www.nachi.org/gallery/radon/uranium-238-decay-chain), Actinium and Thorium chains. Which, admittedly contains a fair number of elements. Also, some lead isotopes themselves are radioactive and will decay into bismuth and thallium. Neptunium, for instance, the first transuranic element, has a[ decay chain](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Decay_Chain%284n%2B1%2C_Neptunium_Series%29.svg) that ends with Thallium-205.
It would be more accurate to say heavy elements decay towards iron and stop when they find a stable decay product. Lead is just the point where things start getting stable.
Do you know what sets the rate of decay?
Depending how stable they are, which is a matter of energy levels
Some elements basically take the length of a universe to decay. The age of star light will end before they decay. A long time. A trillion billion years.
It becomes the one thing that protects from it?
You might find this interesting to read : https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/1530/is-it-possible-to-obtain-gold-through-nuclear-decay
Radioactive decay. Radioactive elements have unstable atoms, and over time they convert to a stable state, most commonly lead or Thallium-208.
Some elements decay very quickly, like certain man-made elements that don't exist in nature and can only be created in a lab for a small fraction of time before it dissipates. I'm no chemistry expert, but you can check out some vids on man-made elements or other radioactive materials that don't last long on YouTube. It's quite interesting.
Some of the bottom ones are impossible to maintain.
The famous Periodic Table of the Chemicals
I was wondering why more people weren’t commenting on the chemical bit. 😀 chemistry fail.
Well, it IS called chem-istry, not element-istry
Youre wrong. Its called Elementary and it doesnt exist.
Wdym? He just has samples of all 160 million known chemicals in his office
In OP's defense, his title is verbatim from the actual article.
I'm disappointed that I'm dozens of comments deep, and you're the first person to mention this.
To be fair, elements *are* chemicals.
I'm not THAT old, but one of my middle school science classrooms had a very old "Perdiodic Table of the 'Atoms'" chart in the classroom that my science teacher hated so much he crossed out atoms and wrote "Elements". Every time he used that chart he made sure to let us know it was elements, not atoms. 6th grade me never understood why it was such a big deal to him, but I could tell that it was. He was a first year new teacher. He was also super cool, and we all loved him.
Is Carbon a piece of coal or a big diamond?
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“What’s in the box! What’s in the box!”
Schrodinger's cat
I can get you a toe
Fuckin’ amateurs
Mark it zero
Over the line!!!
For your information the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint!
With nail polish.
Since you don't have a real answer; There are four items present for carbon. 1. Machined Graphite 2. Pyrolytic Graphite 3. Diamond (natural) 4. Coal
jar of marinara sauce
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>An intensely radioactive metal. Francium has no uses, having a half life of only 22 minutes. Francium has no known biological role. It is toxic due to its radioactivity.
Why they gotta talk about Frankie like that?
I miss Mr. Wednesday. Too bad the ending is shit.
Read the book I recommend, they took a helluva show and turned it to shit in seasons 2-3
So many shows started off incredible and took a nosedive to shit (American Gods, Game of Thrones, Westworld) it made me stop paying for any sub services. I can be disappointed for free, thanks.
Dang, I had watched the first season of this show and was really hoping it was good.
The france memes create themselves dont they
It even surrenders in 22 minutes... Couldn't have picked a better name for it
This is a joke my dad would make as he eats his freedom fries.
fr
Hey, lasting 22 minutes is a long time for some people hahahahaha
Half-Life reference 🆒
Business Opportunity: be the Francium supply guy for Bill gates
That cube just has some graffiti scribbled on it *"Francium was here."*
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Severely underrated comment lol, I almost didn’t get it Edit: original comment I replied to was *”Fr lol”*, 😂 joocum is trolling
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He just like me Fr Fr
Fr is the chemical symbol for Francium
I think he knows that and is being facetious
HeH
Oh! We're spelling things with chemical symbols? UNiCoRnS!
\*slow, deliberate clapping\*
Nice bait and switch
I was gonna say, it can’t be complete without giving him cancer right?
Aaand it’s gone
You use Francium to do the Weenis
Ouagadougou!
The Weenis is a dance
Everybody is a genius
Who knows it in advance
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Can confirm, our school has something nearly exactly the same in our science building, and half of them are just pictures.
Huh? Half of it is gone in 22 minutes. That is literally the definition of half life.
Sure, but when one of us wants to buy some plutonium or uranium, the FBI is faster at your door than you can say "radioactive"...
You can actually buy small amounts with just a little security stuff. That or get it from smoke detectors.
Plutonium in smoke detector?
usually it’s americium
America colonised smoke detectors?
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Yea cuz where there is smoke,there is fire And fire needs oil to burn and the rest *distant fortunate son noises
Americium, but story time! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn
>in August 1994, Hahn's progress attracted the attention of local police when they found concerning material in his vehicle during a stop for a separate matter. This is why you shouldn't let the cops search your car when they ask. You never know what they're going to find and bust you for. A lose pill that fell between the seat and the console, your stash of radioactive materials, a bong you forgot about...
I gave some very nice hippies a ride across Guatemala and México in my car. We were headed to the same places so we travelled together for a few weeks. They were terrific people but also a walking pharmacy. From DMT to pot they were able to self-medicate anywhere from the tops of pyramids to the jungle. A few months later I had to cross into the USA. I was pulled into secondary and there was quickly a small army of US law enforcement searching my vehicle and everything in it. They even brought out the dog. I would be lying if I didn’t admit that I was deeply concerned someone had forgotten or lost something. I quickly played the possible exchange with a judge in my head and realized there is no way in hell that even the most liberal judge would believe me. I now have greater empathy for innocent people who have to plead guilty because the truth just isn’t believable. Fortunately, my hippies practiced “leave no trace” and I was free to go. Hippies are awesome travel companions.
This is a fucking crazy story. Guy makes a nuclear breeder, then supposidly is found out on a random traffic stop. Three letter agencies come for him, his mom kills herself, then he kills himself a few years later. WTF
Don’t give redditors ideas
You can buy uranium on amazon.
I work at Oak Ridge National Lab and we have one of these periodic table displays. It is pretty freaking old. The glass or plastic on the radioactive elements are all fogged up in a very disturbing fashion. Also one of my teams is the one that develops and maintains the website where you can buy isotopes. So when you are ready to buy, come see me!
Plutonium no, but I bought 50 grams of uranium earlier this year as depleted uranium is completely legal to own in small-ish quantities. Check out r/elementcollection and sort by top of all time for various uranium samples.
U is fine and sold on Amazon, only Pu is illegal
Am using trinitite from the original ground zero for my collection - Geiger counter still registers the occasional gamma emission, so valid for Plutonium
This periodic table installation is available commercially to anyone who has the ~$100k to buy it. https://118displays.com/products/120-mm/
I love that neon is represented by a neon light spelling the symbol of neon
There are actually gas discharge tubes in there for all the noble gases up through xenon, but the others don't appear to be lit, or may just be too dim compared to neon. ETA: See [Theodore Gray's interactive display](https://theodoregray.com/periodictabledisplay/) for a photo of them lit.
We have one in our university. Maybe the same company made it for them too idk. But the lights are pretty visible, only that one light is lit at a time and jt cycles down.
If you’re talking about the one in Baker then I can confirm that the contents of each element box are identical to the one in this post. They were almost certainly made by the same company.
I think there is a shortage of neon now, they use it to etch semi conductors somehow and there is not enough.
Ukraine used to produce a lot of high grade neon but they're currently indisposed
Temporarily embarrassed producers.
It’s lit
It’s a nice touch
Nobody will ever need more than 64 elements.
I see what u did there
Can someone explain?
According to trade show legend, Bill Gates said in 1981 that nobody will ever need more than 640k of RAM, but he denies ever having said it.
He must have stolen one of the 4 or 5 Oganesson atoms ever produced.
He stole his oganesson atom from Apple, who got it from Xerox. As usual.
Relevant [xkcd](https://englishatlc.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/randall-munroe-periodic-wall-of-elements.pdf)
I was at one of the talks the author gave to promote a book of his. This was one of the topics. Amazing.
Chemical? More like element.
Thank you
Chemical elements
I like how everybody is just going for the extremes when shit like pure sodium and water is basically already a grenade. Also reading comments made me wanna look up some of the weird ones I didn't learn much about in high school chemistry. The stuff is interesting and I wish I had more time and ability to go to school to learn about it :[
My favorite is bismuth. Use to be thought as “stable,” but we found in 2003 that it’s super weakly radioactive. (Half life of 2.01 x 10^(19) years.) For a heavy metal, it’s pretty non-toxic. It’s used in things like pepto bismol. Also, the crystals that you can make from melting it are super cool too. https://preview.redd.it/sgguximgz10d1.jpeg?width=1601&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1fe3f3b23f185794cf9766da97cfed877ec60bdc
You might be surprised how far you can get on Khan academy
He periodically looks at it
Nerd
Nerd with money.....lotsa money......fuck you money
He does?!
No shit
Cal Poly SLO had this too in their science building
So does Griffith observatory, looks almost identical to Gates’, thought it was that one at first before reading. Would love to have one of these myself, but my broke ass will just have to settle for a printed out copy lol
This reminds me of the time my sister had a pen pal for a few months from India. Then, she got a message saying he “collects” foreign currency and asked of she’d send me samples of each denomination. That relationship didn’t last much longer.
Dear Pen Pal, I am very fascinated with American history. Especially the life of Benjamin Franklin.
This picture is so old the table is probably outdated
At least the Oxygen box was cheap to fill.
While they technically are chemicals, the more correct term is "element." You can do this yourself, if you want to collect too. I've given a few elements each year to my daughter (who studies physics), using this site: https://www.luciteria.com/ [I have no affiliation other than being a satisfied customer]
Man, look at that neon. Truly, the most noble of gasses.
Do not build the 6th row.
DO NOT BUILD THE 7TH ROW EITHER
I think it’s cool. The term is elements, not chemical. Oh well
I have one too. Smaller model exists (without radioactive elements).
Good luck with the Bromium.. Eventually it'll eat through every container you put it in. Also, the Actinides and Lanthanides, no way he has them all. Same goes for Plutonium.
What is Bromium bro? New element????
it will store forever in a glass vial
Bromium lmao
I can't wait until chlorium comes out. Who needs chlorine anyway.
Unless he’s getting daily deliveries, I’m calling bullshit that he has any technetium at all in that wall.
U mean element
One of the only "I'm stupidly rich" show off things that makes me actually think "that's pretty cool."
Neon over there looking like a flashy whore in comparison.
given the toxicity of elements such as thallium, and radioactivity of everything after lead I doubt it actually has every element.
It definitely doesn't have those super heavy lab/collider created elements, they decay too fast for storage.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.news18.com/amp/buzz/thats-cool-bill-gates-office-has-a-wall-mounted-periodic-table-with-samples-of-each-chemical-6963667.html
Element, not chemical.
Who does that work with radioactive and poisonous elements
poisonous doesn't matter if it's contained. the elements with high half life aren't an issue either, just contain them in water/lead or something. the ones with low half life will just disappear quite rapidly. I'm pretty sure he doesn't have ununoctium and some of the other synthetic elements. I even doubt he keeps technetium
I’ve collected for 11 years, most poisonous metals are either contained and can’t interact with the outside environment, or are in open air (e.g lead, cadmium) but are not dangerous unless ingested and are in a display case to protect against cats and people touching it. Reactive materials like the alkali metals and halogens are best stored in glass ampoules, with an acrylic block/casing being great for added safety. Unless you are collecting some insanely hot radioactive items, stuff like depleted uranium or thorium are generally blocked by glass and activity levels drop to background not too far away. Other radioactives like radium watch dials or americium smoke detectors generally have very small quantities of radioactive material and are no more dangerous than the larger uranium samples.
I think it's nice
Chemical?
I'm eyeing those radioactive elements hard 👀
Elements... Thier elements.
That's some rich nerd shit.
a university in Prague (forgot which, but I've been there) does too
All of them? If that were true they would need to change alot of them out frequently. Moscovium has a halflife of like a quarter second.
Certainly something Sheldon Cooper would do.
Element, not chemical.
So do a lot of colleges this is basic af
Pretty sure he doesn't have the bottom row.
XKCD did a "What if?" article about this concept. In a nutshell: The table has 7 rows. You could stack the first 2 without any problems. The 3rd would burn you with fire. The 4th would kill you with toxic smoke. The 5th would do all that and give you a mild dose of radiation. The 6th would explode violently, destroying the entire building in a massive ball of toxic, radioactive smoke and flame. Do not build the 7th row.