what if you put a kg of every periodic element into a bucket

But of what matter such a bucket would have to be constructed of? And what must its dimensions be?
 
Bum Driller said:
But of what matter such a bucket would have to be constructed of? And what must its dimensions be?
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Make it out of neutronium to make it hold all that safely. Something perfectly neutral should be safe right
 
you guys talking bout radiation or explosions n shieeet, lets be real you would create the super element by mixing all the elements in a bucket. ez, just be sure to give it a stir with a wooden stick cause metal might react.
 
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What if there's an infinite number of elements and some of them are just really unstable? Most of the elements over a certain number just immediately cease to exist (while releasing a lot of energy) and there's allegedly another "island of stability" somewhere over 300.

But with most of these, they'd just instantly explode. If there's an infinite number of them, then not only would this happen, but since it would be more matter than exists in the visible universe, the entire universe would be destroyed.
 
Leonard Helplessness said:
The XKCD guy talked about doing something like this, in one of his books. It got to be a problem, because some of the elements on the bottom of the periodic table really don’t want to exist, so you got a situation involving “everything on the periodic table trying to turn into everything else as fast as possible.” A titanic nuclear explosion, basically.
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Yep, it's in his book, What If?. I read that a couple of years ago, it's pretty good except the guy's a rétard about history (and anything that's not strictly scientific).

Inflatable Julay said:
Bro you just started the latest YouTube challenge
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Too late:


A shitload of elements are radioactive and very, very few of any quantity are obtainable by just anyone. A third of a grain of sand's worth of Americium is in a smoke detector. That's about it.
 
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