UNCANNY Chemistry Cache Atomic Number 102 Traditional Cache
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UNCANNY Chemistry Cache Atomic Number 102
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Understanding Nomenclature, Chemistry, And Nanos Near Youngstown
This series blends my career as a chemist and my love of geocaching. You are looking for a nano on the sign that represents the chemical symbol for the element in the cache title.
Brush the dust off your periodic tables. (I understand some of you may have destroyed or mutilated them because of the love/hate nature of chemistry.) The series is not meant to be difficult but fun and educational.
Beware of Muggles. Please tighten and return the Nano to the exact location and save space by only initialling the log.
Additional information:
Named after a Swedish chemist who discovered dynamite. The namesake chemist has international awards in his name. A team working in Stockholm reported in 1957 an isotope whose atomic number is 102. They made this isotope by bombardment of 244Cm with 13C ions. In 1958 a group at Berkeley, California, USA reported that they were unable to reproduce this work, findings agreed by a Russian group at Dubna. However an authenticated discovery was made in 1958 by Seaborg and others at Berkeley, California, USA. Since then a number of isotopes with mass numbers in the range 250-259 have been made.
Uses:
As only very little has ever been made, it has no known uses.
Source: webelements.com
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(Decrypt)
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