Oh sure, if you don’t mind that it’s an isotope, Pm-147, which makes it a bastard element.
But consider this: promehtium is so boring that its discoverers didn’t bother to announce their discovery for years! Read the uninspiring story here.
Sure, “not good for much” does not equal useless. You could stuff a beanbag with it, if you could find any, which aside from the lab-created variety there’s apparently very little of on Earth, we’re talking mere grams.
People called Dysprosii, they go the house?
Well, this element is pretty much useless today.
I wonder how astatine-211 could have medical uses, when there basically isn’t any such thing. It’s made from bismuth-200 and could potentially be used in thyroid cancer, because it’s chemically similar to iodine - but we already use iodine for this purpose, and it works and doesn’t stay radioactive very long.
Yes, there are useless elements. I have one on my stove.
All variants of an element are isotopes. There’s no such thing as a non-isotope form of an element. Example: the three main isotopes of Hydrogen includes H[sup]1[/sup].
What? Are you trying to derail this discussion with facts? Especially now that the inevitable jokey posts that attempt to mine alternate meanings of the word “element” for giant belly laughs are just now pulling into the station?
I say the whole Promethium family and all its cousins are damnable no-accounts.
There are Elements that post inane threads like this on forums.
Seems pretty useless to me.
If anyone has a use for Moscovium (element 115) beyond pure science, let me know; the half-life of its longest-lived isotope, Moscovium-290, is 650 milliseconds.
I don’t think there’s uses, other than scientific research, for any element above 98 californium. It’s not because of too short a half-life; some have half-lives measured in days, but they still don’t have any use.
Flerovium-298 is predicted to be (relatively!) stable, but so far nobody has managed to make any. Even if it had its uses, one problem with these heavy elements is the ludicrously high cost of synthesizing even just a few atoms, which is going to limit practical applications.
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This is certainly a threadshit, and it looks to me like it’s also a personal attack. If you don’t like a thread, then the simple solution is to not post in it. This is an official Warning for violating board rules.
Slight tangent:
I hadn’t realized that elements in the 110s had actual names these days. I still remember the “ununpentium”-type names on classroom periodic tables *circa *the mid 1980s.
