What does the future hold for the periodic elements?
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ignoring radioactivity(which deals with unstable isotopes) the elements are indestructible and will last forever.\nthe law of conservation of matter says matter can never be created nor destroyed.( we can destroy matter in nuclear bombs but otherwise...).\nAs long as atoms exist, which is forever, the periodic table will tell you what to expect.
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I bet it will be nanomachines.  Microscopic machines that work at the molecular level will be crucial in the biomedical fields and in new tech innovations that we use everyday, like today cell phones.  Did you ever see that add for microsoft where it was in the near future and this girl was jogging and she got a video conference call from her dad over her sunglasses? He brought up schematics of art works he was thinking of buying and talking to her while she was jogging... well thats all going to be possible with molecular computers.  Unfortunately though, so will other really bad things, we'll just have to see how it goes.
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Yes but it will be a long time away. In 6 to 7 billion years, stellar evolution theory predicts our sun will evolve into a red giant  and will probably completely surround the Earth. I don't think I will be around then.
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Just about all of the current problems will be gone, one way or another, and there will be new ones to replace them.\n\nTechnology will be light years ahead.  The more things advance and the more knowledge we have the more we are capable of advancing more rapidly.  The changes in the world in the last 50 years will be nothing in comparison to the changes for the next 50 years.
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At the bottom of the perodic table...\n\nThey are technetium (at. no. 43), which was the first element to be synthesized, promethium (at. no. 61), astatine (at. no. 85), francium (at. no. 87), and the transuranium elements (at. no. 93 and beyond in the periodic table). Some of these elements have since been shown to exist in minute amounts in nature, usually as short-lived members of natural radioactive decay series (see radioactivity).\n\nThe synthetic elements through at. no. 100 (fermium) are created by bombarding a heavy element, such as uranium or plutonium, with neutrons or alpha particles. The synthesis of the transfermium elements (elements with at. no. 101 or greater) is accomplished by the fusion of the nuclei of two lighter elements. Elements 101 through 106 were first produced by fusing the nuclei of slightly lighter elements, such as californium, with those of light elements, such as carbon. Elements 107 through 112 were first produced by fusing the nuclei of medium-weight elements, such as bismuth or lead, with those of other medium-weight elements, such as iron, nickel, or zinc. Element 114 was first produced by fusing the nuclei of plutonium and calcium and subsequently by fusing the nuclei of lead and krypton, as was element 116. Element 115 was produced by bombarding americium with calcium, and element 113 resulted from the radioactive decay of element 115. The claim by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to have created element 118 has been retracted.)\n\nThe transfermium elements are produced in very small quantities (one atom at a time), and identification is therefore very difficult because of half-lives ranging from minutes to milliseconds and the need to identify the products by methods other than known chemical separations. This has led to controversy over reported discoveries and over the naming of the elements. It has been predicted that one isotope of element 114—containing 114 protons and 184 neutrons—would be very stable because its nucleus would have a full complement of protons and neutrons. Termed an “island of stability,” its half-life might be measured in years. However, none of the three isotopes of element 114 synthesized as yet have as many as 184 neutrons, and their half-lives are still in the millisecond range.
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oxygen, nitrogen, every fuckin mineral and more on the periodic table...take chemistry
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All elements with atomic number higher than 92 (Uranium) are artificially produced. To do so, they accelerate a neutron (which is hard since neutron has no charge) and then bombard a lighter nucleus with them. The nucleus absorbs a neutron, releases an electron (beta ray) and keeps a proton, so the atomic number will raise one number. (n -> e + p)\nThey do it again and again until they reach the element that they want. but the higher the atomic number, the lower the half life will be (they will last from few months to few micro seconds) when they say that an element is not yet produced but they put it in the periodic table, this means they have evidence that is should exist, but since the half life is short they are unable to detect it, so they have to wait for technology to advance so they can detect it.
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An element will become stable when it's outermost electron (valence) shell is full.  In most cases, the valence shell will contain 8 electrons when stable.  Hydrogen and helium only require 2 electrons.  \n\nIn order to achieve a full set, atoms can gain or lose electrons forming ionic compounds.  This normally happens between metals and nonmetals on the periodic table.  Alternatively, atoms can share electrons forming covalent compounds, which generally occurs between two nonmetals.
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It depends on if you are looking at large quanities or just any ammount goes. It also depends on if you are looking at elements that are only found in compounds or not. Oxygen, hydrogen, argon, carbon, nitrogen, alluminium, silicon, iron, tugstan, lithium, potassum, titanium to name a few. almost all of the elements can be found near the earth's surface except those that are man made, usually the extremly heavy ones like plutonium.
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Gold AU\nSilver AG\nLead PB\nCarbon C\nNickle NI\nIridium IR\nZR Zirconium\nCU copper\nLi Lithium
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Do you want to include transition metal?\n\nWhat ever it is IP increases from left to right in a period.\n\nOpen the periodic table in a text book you will find the exact IP values.
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The periodic table is organized by a few things, but most noticably is the amount of protons located in the nucleus of an atom.\n\n1 Hydrogen, 2 Helium, 3 Lithium, 4 Beryllium, 5 Boron etc\n\nYour question cannot be answered unless we found that there was a limit to the number of protons allowed to be in the nucleus.  As of right now, there is no pursuading evidence that there couldn't be an element with 603 protons, 2005 protons etc...\n\nSo we must admit that there could be an infinite amout of elements (though in the real world there isn't anything that is "Infinite") so theoretically we know 111 elements out of infinity. \nWhich is 0%.
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The Periodic Table of the Elements, as developed by Mendeleev.
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It is difficult to predict what the future will hold for the planet being Earth and the human species.  Humans have the ability of free-will.  We have the ability to preserve what we are as a species and the planet or destroy the creation of one or both.  Currently we are at a cross-roads in spiritual advancement.  The Service to Self people (power, money, great assets, war) and the Service to Others (global community and planetary assistance).  We are moving in the direction of the Service to Others but time will tell if we meet our objective for our evolutionary advancement and preserve the human species and our planet Earth.  Both are beautiful, I hope we do.
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I'd expect to find it grouped with alkali metals, atomic number 11, Group 1, Period 3, Block s :)
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Check out this website it will tell you all you would ever want to know about radon and any other element.\n\nhttp://www.lenntech.com/Periodic-chart-elements/Rn-en.htm
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This guy:\n\nhttp://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/\n\nhas some great pictures of samples of elements.