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If I'm not mistaken, this is the first actinoid + heavier-than-48Ca projectile that was actually successful, right? That seems to deserve some mention.
@Double sharp: That indeed appears to be the case! Unfortunately, detailed results haven't been published in the literature yet, but I did find this press release saying that this was the first successful synthesis of a SHE using a Cr beam, so I guess we can go with that for now. Complex/Rational14:43, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
The most up-to-date source is usually NUBASE2020, unless more recent papers have been published regarding certain isotopes.
Synchronizing data, unfortunately, is something that someone has to do manually; this also includes using the same values in all pages referencing a given isotope. I'm wondering if, at least for tables and infoboxes, incorporating values from Wikidata might be feasible. Complex/Rational16:19, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
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P.S. in 2019 248Cm+54Cr was 検討中 (under consideration) at RIKEN as well as 248Cm+51V. I assume the plan is still to try that next after 248Cm+51V, assuming somebody else doesn't beat them to it. But no source explicitly saying so. Double sharp (talk) 16:17, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
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It's been a while since I read one of these, thank you!
So it seems that JINR still has the mixed Cf target and may try again to create new isotopes of Og, but otherwise will have to make do with 248Cm targets. And there's also hope for producing a usable amount of 254Es for a target to chase E119 and E121. Complex/Rational15:07, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
254Es was already hoped for in the 2015 version of this paper (doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2015.06.009). Perhaps this means it's nearer to fruition. Or perhaps this means that it just hasn't progressed.
OTOH, it's stated in the 2023 paper that Russia produces 252Cf at the SM-3 reactor, so it seems not out of the question that they could get Bk and Cf if they really needed it.
P.S. The fact that HFIR and SM-3 were built in the 1960s, and there are currently no other high-flux reactors (though PIK in St. Petersburg may be on the way), makes me sad. :( Double sharp (talk) 15:46, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
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I do wonder: even if someone found it live on Earth (which still hasn't happened AFAIK), how would it ever be proven not to be anthropogenic? This was even an issue for the actinoids 236U and 237Np on the Moon (one, two).
Unfortunately, I suspect live extraterrestrial 247Cm will be something like primordial 146Sm: by calculation, it must exist naturally, but it'd be almost impossible to actually prove it experimentally. I hope it will happen one day, but more for the romance of pedantically talking about 96 natural elements than for the science, just like natural promethium. (247Cm decays to 243Pu which decays to 243Am, so finding live r-process Cm would imply natural Am in secular equilibrium.) :)
But a similar issue kind of affects fission products. We list 126Sn as a trace radioisotope, which no doubt it naturally is as a spontaneous fission product of uranium; but surely it must be more common as an anthropogenic fission product. I feel like if the logic would lead one to call 90Sr natural, one has kind of lost sight of the point, even if it's technically true. Perhaps you could help come up with a consistent criterion? Double sharp (talk) 16:39, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
The difficulty in creating a consistent criterion stems from the fact that natural processes can produce various nuclides that are neither primordial, cosmogenic, or major decay products, but in such small quantities that pinpointing their natural origin is difficult. We could also call nuclides such as 182Yb and 26Ne (from cluster decay of 232Th) natural by some metrics, though they ought not to be classified alongside, say, the short-lived nuclides in the 4n decay series. And for fission products, the recurring theme seems to be a relatively long-lived bottleneck for each mass number, though I would agree that it would be rather difficult to distinguish minute amounts from natural SF branches and anthropogenic waste.
I think criteria of (1) primordial, (2) cosmogenic, or (3) main decay product of Th/U would encompass all isotopes that have unambiguously been detected in nature, although one could argue the merits of including nuclides such as 221Rn (very rare branch in the already-rare neptunium series) under criterion 3, similar to your example of 90Sr.
And regarding curium-247, "simple" math suggests that since about 300 half-lives have elapsed since the formation of the Solar System, reducing its abundance by 91 orders of magnitude. As such, I'm quite skeptical that any would exist outside ejecta from more recent r-process sites, so any detected on Earth would almost certainly be anthropogenic. However, we can still hope for detection in interstellar objects – maybe the next ʻOumuamua? Complex/Rational22:51, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
247Cm has been considered since 1960. Unfortunately its half-life is about ten times shorter than was hoped then. :( But hey, at least it presciently realises how it could be detected as an extinct radionuclide, as indeed it eventually was. Other than visitors from supernovae, I can't think of any way to get it to exist as a live isotope on Earth without human involvement.
Well, 147Pm is more common in Earth's crust than 223Fr. So by this logic 137Cs should be a "trace radioisotope". Essentially we're stuck in a bind because it's ridiculous to say Fr is not natural when Marguerite Perey found it in nature (I really salute her for this), but practically speaking, it is even less natural than Pu, which is far more a synthetic element than a natural one. (BTW, this makes me idly wonder about an alternative-history in which somehow transmutation was developed a little bit slower. Astatine was almost first found in nature too, and so I guess Tc and Pm from spontaneous fission could really have been found first had history gone differently! The trouble would be Np and Pu: without transmutation to produce larger quantities, one would not know what to look for, and one would probably not find them because one would expect eka-Re and eka-Os chemistry.) Double sharp (talk) 19:00, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
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Hi ComplexRational. Thanks for completing the revdel on Platonic Love; would it be possible for you to take a look at the other i found by the same editor, Tere Bin (2022 TV series), which i also put the template on? Happy days, ~ LindsayHello09:00, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
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This edit conflicts with Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles of works#Italics, which says Italic type...should be used for...Video games, board games, trading card games. Actually most of that article does not italicize Quoridor... but either it should or the Manual of Style needs adjusting. Maybe this is a question for an admin. Do you know any? ;-)
Thanks for the heads-up; I had previously been unaware of that detail. Italicizing consistently throughout that article is an easy enough fix.
It may, however, be worth clarifying on the MOS page that there are certain exceptions such as chess and checkers (which I probably used as a mental reference point), as those fall into both the categories of traditional games and board games. Complex/Rational01:09, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
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Hi Nickps, I don't think revdel is necessary here because they're asking a question about dubious claims, not themselves making such assertions that would be considered BLP violations. Complex/Rational00:11, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
My concern is that the IP's comment could be an attempt to use the "just asking questions" method to spread the claims in question. But I might be overreacting. Nickps (talk) 00:22, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
If that were the case, such claims would likely be inserted directly into the article rather than on the less-visible talk page. But if something more egregious does come up that may need revdel, please let me or another admin know. Complex/Rational00:39, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
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