2723: Outdated Periodic Table - Revision history

BunsenH: /* Explanation */ "pentium" element

2026-02-11T05:47:03Z

‎Explanation: "pentium" element

BunsenH: /* Explanation */ helium vs. periodic table

2026-02-10T18:40:30Z

‎Explanation: helium vs. periodic table

DKMell: capitalization, punctuation, etc.

2026-02-10T18:15:37Z

capitalization, punctuation, etc.

82.132.238.138: /* Explanation */

2026-02-10T17:18:05Z

‎Explanation

BunsenH: /* Explanation */ too-long sentence, rephrase, neutrons

2026-02-10T15:03:43Z

‎Explanation: too-long sentence, rephrase, neutrons

Whoop whoop pull up: /* Explanation */

2026-02-10T14:20:12Z

‎Explanation

Lp0 on fire: removed Category:Science using HotCat

2025-11-27T17:07:26Z

removed Category:Science using HotCat

CalibansCreations: /* Explanation */ why span

2025-03-13T12:17:49Z

‎Explanation: why span

ConscriptGlossary: Shorten

2024-11-29T12:54:26Z

Shorten

172.71.122.111: /* Explanation */ The company is actually (if you insist on 'not advertising') Intel...

2024-11-29T12:52:00Z

‎Explanation: The company is actually (if you insist on 'not advertising') In<span>t</span>el...

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 Randall injects humor by taking it to the extreme and showcasing a periodic table from a book published just half an hour after the {{w|Big Bang}}, at which time those four elements were the only ones present. From about 10 seconds until about 20 minutes after the Big Bang, the phase that is known as the {{w|Big Bang nucleosynthesis}} occurred. At that time, hydrogen ions (single protons) and neutrons combined to create helium in abundance as well as traces of lithium. Some beryllium-7 was also formed, which is {{w|Isotopes of beryllium|an unstable isotope}} having a half-life of 53 days. Randall's science book was published when those four elements were the only ones in existence, even though this would be absurd since no life as we know it could exist with only these four elements to write and publish the book;{{cn}} perhaps it is why Randall's mysterious textbook seems and manages to reflect the direct state of elements existing in nature, even though the real-life periodic table was slowly filled out based on what could be easily found and later synthesized. For example, despite helium being one of the first elements to ever exist, and still one of the most common in the universe (roughly 24%, by mass, with hydrogen being around 75% and every other element combined being the remainder), it did not appear in the earliest periodic tables. (It was first detected spectroscopically in 1868, but formally "discovered" in 1895. The first generally-accepted periodic table was created by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869.)
-The title text refers to how yet-undiscovered elements are given a {{w|systematic element name}} as a temporary name, until a more permanent name is decided upon. The names are based upon a standard group of Greek and Latin roots that read out the decimal digits of an element's unique {{w|atomic number}} (i.e., the number of protons) and adding "-ium" to the end. The claim in the title text is that, in the textbook with the figure, researchers claim they have synthesized six additional elements in the second row, temporarily named 'pentium' (atomic number "5") through to 'unnilium' ("one zero", or "10"). In reality, all these elements are well known as {{w|boron}}, {{w|carbon}}, {{w|nitrogen}}, {{w|oxygen}}, {{w|fluorine}} and {{w|neon}}. The word "{{w|Pentium}}" is also the brand name of some computer hardware which ''may'' contain some amount of boron.
+The title text refers to how yet-undiscovered elements are given a {{w|systematic element name}} as a temporary name, until a more permanent name is decided upon. The names are based upon a standard group of Greek and Latin roots that read out the decimal digits of an element's unique {{w|atomic number}} (i.e., the number of protons) and adding "-ium" to the end. The claim in the title text is that, in the textbook with the figure, researchers claim they have synthesized six additional elements in the second row, temporarily named 'pentium' (atomic number "5") through to 'unnilium' ("one zero", or "10"). In reality, all these elements are well known as {{w|boron}}, {{w|carbon}}, {{w|nitrogen}}, {{w|oxygen}}, {{w|fluorine}} and {{w|neon}}. The word "{{w|Pentium}}" is also the brand name of some computer hardware which ''may'' contain some amount of boron (i.e. the so-called "pentium" element).
 ==Transcript==

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 This comic shows figure 6.14 from a science text book, which displays ''The {{w|periodic table}} of the elements'', but with only the first four elements ({{w|hydrogen}}, {{w|helium}}, {{w|lithium}} and {{w|beryllium}}) shown. [[Randall]] claims in the caption that you can use such charts to date a publication based upon the {{w|Chemical elements|elements}} present or missing. This can be true to some degree. For example, {{w|nihonium}}, {{w|moscovium}}, and {{w|oganesson}} were first discovered in 2003, {{w|tennessine}} was first discovered in 2010, and all four were given their current names in 2016; thus up-to-date charts made between 2010 and 2016 could only have had their previous {{w|systematic element name}}s of ununtrium, ununpentium, ununseptium and ununoctium, those between 2003 and 2010 would have just ununtrium, ununpentium and ununoctium, and they would be completely absent from those before 2003 except as theoretical placeholders.
-Randall injects humor by taking it to the extreme and showcasing a periodic table from a book published just half an hour after the {{w|Big Bang}}, at which time those four elements were the only ones present. From about 10 seconds until about 20 minutes after the Big Bang, the phase that is known as the {{w|Big Bang nucleosynthesis}} occurred. At that time, hydrogen ions (single protons) and neutrons combined to create helium in abundance as well as traces of lithium. Some beryllium-7 was also formed, which is {{w|Isotopes of beryllium|an unstable isotope}} having a half-life of 53 days. Randall's science book was published when those four elements were the only ones in existence, even though this would be absurd since no life as we know it could exist with only these four elements to write and publish the book;{{cn}} perhaps it is why Randall's mysterious textbook seems and manages to reflect the direct state of elements existing in nature, even though the real-life periodic table was slowly filled out based on what could be easily found and later synthesized. For example, despite helium being one of the first elements to ever exist, and still one of the most common in the universe (roughly 24%, by mass, with hydrogen being around 75% and every other element combined being the remainder), it did not appear in the earliest periodic tables.
+Randall injects humor by taking it to the extreme and showcasing a periodic table from a book published just half an hour after the {{w|Big Bang}}, at which time those four elements were the only ones present. From about 10 seconds until about 20 minutes after the Big Bang, the phase that is known as the {{w|Big Bang nucleosynthesis}} occurred. At that time, hydrogen ions (single protons) and neutrons combined to create helium in abundance as well as traces of lithium. Some beryllium-7 was also formed, which is {{w|Isotopes of beryllium|an unstable isotope}} having a half-life of 53 days. Randall's science book was published when those four elements were the only ones in existence, even though this would be absurd since no life as we know it could exist with only these four elements to write and publish the book;{{cn}} perhaps it is why Randall's mysterious textbook seems and manages to reflect the direct state of elements existing in nature, even though the real-life periodic table was slowly filled out based on what could be easily found and later synthesized. For example, despite helium being one of the first elements to ever exist, and still one of the most common in the universe (roughly 24%, by mass, with hydrogen being around 75% and every other element combined being the remainder), it did not appear in the earliest periodic tables. (It was first detected spectroscopically in 1868, but formally "discovered" in 1895. The first generally-accepted periodic table was created by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869.)
 The title text refers to how yet-undiscovered elements are given a {{w|systematic element name}} as a temporary name, until a more permanent name is decided upon. The names are based upon a standard group of Greek and Latin roots that read out the decimal digits of an element's unique {{w|atomic number}} (i.e., the number of protons) and adding "-ium" to the end. The claim in the title text is that, in the textbook with the figure, researchers claim they have synthesized six additional elements in the second row, temporarily named 'pentium' (atomic number "5") through to 'unnilium' ("one zero", or "10"). In reality, all these elements are well known as {{w|boron}}, {{w|carbon}}, {{w|nitrogen}}, {{w|oxygen}}, {{w|fluorine}} and {{w|neon}}. The word "{{w|Pentium}}" is also the brand name of some computer hardware which ''may'' contain some amount of boron.

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 ==Explanation==
-This comic shows figure 6.14 from a science text book, which displays ''The {{w|periodic table}} of the elements'', but with only the first four elements ({{w|hydrogen}}, {{w|helium}}, {{w|lithium}} and {{w|beryllium}}) shown. [[Randall]] claims in the caption that you can use such charts to date a publication based upon the {{w|Chemical elements|elements}} present or missing. This can be true to some degree. For example, {{w|Nihonium}}, {{w|Moscovium}}, and {{w|Oganesson}} were first discovered in 2003, {{w|Tennessine}} was first discovered in 2010, and all four were given their current names in 2016, thus up-to-date charts made between 2010 and 2016 could only have had their previous {{w|systematic element name}}s of Ununtrium, Ununpentium, Ununseptium and Ununoctium, those between 2003 and 2010 would have just Ununtrium, Ununpentium and Ununoctium, and they would be completely absent from those before 2003, except as theoretical placeholders. Randall injects humor by taking it to the extreme and showcasing a periodic table from a book published just half an hour after the {{w|Big Bang}}, at which time those four elements were the only ones present.
+This comic shows figure 6.14 from a science text book, which displays ''The {{w|periodic table}} of the elements'', but with only the first four elements ({{w|hydrogen}}, {{w|helium}}, {{w|lithium}} and {{w|beryllium}}) shown. [[Randall]] claims in the caption that you can use such charts to date a publication based upon the {{w|Chemical elements|elements}} present or missing. This can be true to some degree. For example, {{w|nihonium}}, {{w|moscovium}}, and {{w|oganesson}} were first discovered in 2003, {{w|tennessine}} was first discovered in 2010, and all four were given their current names in 2016; thus up-to-date charts made between 2010 and 2016 could only have had their previous {{w|systematic element name}}s of ununtrium, ununpentium, ununseptium and ununoctium, those between 2003 and 2010 would have just ununtrium, ununpentium and ununoctium, and they would be completely absent from those before 2003 except as theoretical placeholders.
-From about 10 seconds until about 20 minutes after the Big Bang, the phase that is known as the {{w|Big Bang nucleosynthesis}} occurred. At that time, hydrogen ions (single protons) and neutrons combined to create helium in abundance and traces of lithium. Some beryllium-7 was also formed, which is an unstable {{w|Isotopes of beryllium|isotope}} having a half life of 53 days. Randall's science book was published when those four elements were the only ones in existence, even though this would be absurd since no life as we know it could exist with only these four elements to write and publish the book; perhaps it is why Randall's mysterious textbook seems and manages to reflect the direct state of elements existing in nature, even though the real life periodic table was slowly filled out based on what could be easily found and later synthesized. For example, despite helium being one of the first elements to exist, and still one of the most common in the universe (roughly 24%, by mass, with hydrogen being around 75% and every other element combined being the remainder), it did not appear in the earliest periodic tables.
+Randall injects humor by taking it to the extreme and showcasing a periodic table from a book published just half an hour after the {{w|Big Bang}}, at which time those four elements were the only ones present. From about 10 seconds until about 20 minutes after the Big Bang, the phase that is known as the {{w|Big Bang nucleosynthesis}} occurred. At that time, hydrogen ions (single protons) and neutrons combined to create helium in abundance as well as traces of lithium. Some beryllium-7 was also formed, which is {{w|Isotopes of beryllium|an unstable isotope}} having a half-life of 53 days. Randall's science book was published when those four elements were the only ones in existence, even though this would be absurd since no life as we know it could exist with only these four elements to write and publish the book;{{cn}} perhaps it is why Randall's mysterious textbook seems and manages to reflect the direct state of elements existing in nature, even though the real-life periodic table was slowly filled out based on what could be easily found and later synthesized. For example, despite helium being one of the first elements to ever exist, and still one of the most common in the universe (roughly 24%, by mass, with hydrogen being around 75% and every other element combined being the remainder), it did not appear in the earliest periodic tables.
-The title text refers to how yet-undiscovered elements are given a {{w|systematic element name}} as a temporary name, until a more permanent name is decided upon. The names are based upon a standard group of Greek and Latin roots that read out the decimal digits of an element's unique {{w|atomic number}} (i.e., the number of protons) and adding "-ium" to the end. The claim in the title text is that, in the textbook with the figure, researchers claim they have synthesized six additional elements in the second row, temporarily named 'pentium' (atomic number "5") through to 'unnilium' ("one zero", or "10"). In reality, all these elements are well known as {{w|Boron}}, {{w|Carbon}}, {{w|Nitrogen}}, {{w|Oxygen}}, {{w|Fluorine}} and {{w|Neon}}. The word "{{w|Pentium}}" is also the brand name of some computer hardware which ''may'' contain some amount of boron.
+The title text refers to how yet-undiscovered elements are given a {{w|systematic element name}} as a temporary name, until a more permanent name is decided upon. The names are based upon a standard group of Greek and Latin roots that read out the decimal digits of an element's unique {{w|atomic number}} (i.e., the number of protons) and adding "-ium" to the end. The claim in the title text is that, in the textbook with the figure, researchers claim they have synthesized six additional elements in the second row, temporarily named 'pentium' (atomic number "5") through to 'unnilium' ("one zero", or "10"). In reality, all these elements are well known as {{w|boron}}, {{w|carbon}}, {{w|nitrogen}}, {{w|oxygen}}, {{w|fluorine}} and {{w|neon}}. The word "{{w|Pentium}}" is also the brand name of some computer hardware which ''may'' contain some amount of boron.
 ==Transcript==

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 ==Explanation==
-This comic shows figure 6.14 from a science text book, which displays ''The {{w|periodic table}} of the elements'', but with only the first four elements ({{w|hydrogen}}, {{w|helium}}, {{w|lithium}} and {{w|beryllium}}) shown. [[Randall]] claims in the caption that you can use such charts to date a publication based upon the {{w|Chemical elements|elements}} present or missing. This can be true to some degree. For example, {{w|Nihonium}}, {{w|Moscovium}}, and {{w|Oganesson}} were first discovered in 2003, {{w|Tennessine}} was first discovered in 2010, and all four were named in 2016, thus charts made between 2010 and 2016 would have the {{w|systematic element name}}s Ununtrium, Ununpentium, Ununseptium and Ununoctium, those between 2003 and 2010 would have just Ununtrium, Ununpentium, and Ununoctium, and they would be completely absent from those before 2003. Randall injects humor by taking it to the extreme and showcasing a periodic table from a book published just half an hour after the {{w|Big Bang}}, at which time those four elements were the only ones present.
+This comic shows figure 6.14 from a science text book, which displays ''The {{w|periodic table}} of the elements'', but with only the first four elements ({{w|hydrogen}}, {{w|helium}}, {{w|lithium}} and {{w|beryllium}}) shown. [[Randall]] claims in the caption that you can use such charts to date a publication based upon the {{w|Chemical elements|elements}} present or missing. This can be true to some degree. For example, {{w|Nihonium}}, {{w|Moscovium}}, and {{w|Oganesson}} were first discovered in 2003, {{w|Tennessine}} was first discovered in 2010, and all four were given their current names in 2016, thus up-to-date charts made between 2010 and 2016 could only have had their previous {{w|systematic element name}}s of Ununtrium, Ununpentium, Ununseptium and Ununoctium, those between 2003 and 2010 would have just Ununtrium, Ununpentium and Ununoctium, and they would be completely absent from those before 2003, except as theoretical placeholders. Randall injects humor by taking it to the extreme and showcasing a periodic table from a book published just half an hour after the {{w|Big Bang}}, at which time those four elements were the only ones present.
 From about 10 seconds until about 20 minutes after the Big Bang, the phase that is known as the {{w|Big Bang nucleosynthesis}} occurred. At that time, hydrogen ions (single protons) and neutrons combined to create helium in abundance and traces of lithium. Some beryllium-7 was also formed, which is an unstable {{w|Isotopes of beryllium|isotope}} having a half life of 53 days. Randall's science book was published when those four elements were the only ones in existence, even though this would be absurd since no life as we know it could exist with only these four elements to write and publish the book; perhaps it is why Randall's mysterious textbook seems and manages to reflect the direct state of elements existing in nature, even though the real life periodic table was slowly filled out based on what could be easily found and later synthesized. For example, despite helium being one of the first elements to exist, and still one of the most common in the universe (roughly 24%, by mass, with hydrogen being around 75% and every other element combined being the remainder), it did not appear in the earliest periodic tables.

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 ==Explanation==
-This comic shows figure 6.14 from a science text book, which displays ''The {{w|periodic table}} of the elements'', but with only the first four elements ({{w|hydrogen}}, {{w|helium}}, {{w|lithium}} and {{w|beryllium}}) shown. [[Randall]] claims in the caption that you can use such charts to date a publication based upon the {{w|Chemical elements|elements}} present or missing. While this is true in a sense - for example, {{w|Nihonium}}, {{w|Moscovium}}, and {{w|Oganesson}} were first discovered in 2003, {{w|Tennessine}} was first discovered in 2010, and all four were named in 2016, thus charts made between 2010 and 2016 would have the {{w|systematic element name}}s Ununtrium, Ununpentium, Ununseptium and Ununoctium, those between 2003 and 2010 would have just Ununtrium, Ununpentium, and Ununoctium, and they would be completely absent from those before 2003 - Randall injects humor by taking it to the extreme and showcasing a periodic table from a book published just half an hour after the {{w|Big Bang}}, at which time those four elements were the only ones present.
+This comic shows figure 6.14 from a science text book, which displays ''The {{w|periodic table}} of the elements'', but with only the first four elements ({{w|hydrogen}}, {{w|helium}}, {{w|lithium}} and {{w|beryllium}}) shown. [[Randall]] claims in the caption that you can use such charts to date a publication based upon the {{w|Chemical elements|elements}} present or missing. This can be true to some degree. For example, {{w|Nihonium}}, {{w|Moscovium}}, and {{w|Oganesson}} were first discovered in 2003, {{w|Tennessine}} was first discovered in 2010, and all four were named in 2016, thus charts made between 2010 and 2016 would have the {{w|systematic element name}}s Ununtrium, Ununpentium, Ununseptium and Ununoctium, those between 2003 and 2010 would have just Ununtrium, Ununpentium, and Ununoctium, and they would be completely absent from those before 2003. Randall injects humor by taking it to the extreme and showcasing a periodic table from a book published just half an hour after the {{w|Big Bang}}, at which time those four elements were the only ones present.
-From about 10 seconds until about 20 minutes after the Big Bang, the phase that is known as the {{w|Big Bang nucleosynthesis}} occurred. At that time, hydrogen ions (single protons) provided for helium in abundance and traces of lithium. Some berylium-7 was also formed, which is an unstable {{w|Isotopes of beryllium|isotope}} having a half life of 53 days. Randall's science book was published when those four elements were the only ones in existence, even though this would be absurd since no life as we know it could exist with only these four elements to write and publish the book; perhaps it is why Randall's mysterious textbook seems and manages to reflect the direct state of elements existing in nature, even though the real life periodic table was slowly filled out based on what could be easily found and later synthesized. For example, despite helium being one of the first elements to exist, and still one of the most common in the universe (roughly 24%, by mass, with hydrogen being around 75% and every other element combined being the remainder), it did not appear in the earliest periodic tables.
+From about 10 seconds until about 20 minutes after the Big Bang, the phase that is known as the {{w|Big Bang nucleosynthesis}} occurred. At that time, hydrogen ions (single protons) and neutrons combined to create helium in abundance and traces of lithium. Some beryllium-7 was also formed, which is an unstable {{w|Isotopes of beryllium|isotope}} having a half life of 53 days. Randall's science book was published when those four elements were the only ones in existence, even though this would be absurd since no life as we know it could exist with only these four elements to write and publish the book; perhaps it is why Randall's mysterious textbook seems and manages to reflect the direct state of elements existing in nature, even though the real life periodic table was slowly filled out based on what could be easily found and later synthesized. For example, despite helium being one of the first elements to exist, and still one of the most common in the universe (roughly 24%, by mass, with hydrogen being around 75% and every other element combined being the remainder), it did not appear in the earliest periodic tables.
 The title text refers to how yet-undiscovered elements are given a {{w|systematic element name}} as a temporary name, until a more permanent name is decided upon. The names are based upon a standard group of Greek and Latin roots that read out the decimal digits of an element's unique {{w|atomic number}} (i.e., the number of protons) and adding "-ium" to the end. The claim in the title text is that, in the textbook with the figure, researchers claim they have synthesized six additional elements in the second row, temporarily named 'pentium' (atomic number "5") through to 'unnilium' ("one zero", or "10"). In reality, all these elements are well known as {{w|Boron}}, {{w|Carbon}}, {{w|Nitrogen}}, {{w|Oxygen}}, {{w|Fluorine}} and {{w|Neon}}. The word "{{w|Pentium}}" is also the brand name of some computer hardware which ''may'' contain some amount of boron.

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