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Sunday, 15 July 2012

List of Elements (By Name & Atomic Number) - Periodic Table


By Name (Alphabetical)

Element ( Symbol ) Atomic Number

Actinium ( Ac ) 89
Aluminium ( Al ) 13
Americium ( Am ) 95
Antimony ( Sb ) 51
Argon ( Ar ) 18
Arsenic ( As ) 33
Astatine ( At ) 85
Barium ( Ba ) 56
Berkelium ( Bk ) 97
Beryllium ( Be ) 4
Bismuth ( Bi ) 83
Bohrium ( Bh ) 107
Boron ( B ) 5
Bromine ( Br ) 35
Cadmium ( Cd ) 48
Caesium ( Cs ) 55
Calcium ( Ca ) 20
Californium ( Cf ) 98
Carbon ( C ) 6
Cerium ( Ce ) 58
Chlorine ( Cl ) 17
Chromium ( Cr ) 24
Cobalt ( Co ) 27
Copernicium ( Cn ) 112
Copper ( Cu ) 29
Curium ( Cm ) 96
Darmstadtium ( Ds ) 110
Dubnium ( Db ) 105
Dysprosium ( Dy ) 66
Einsteinium ( Es ) 99
Erbium ( Er ) 68
Europium ( Eu ) 63
Fermium ( Fm ) 100
Flerovium ( Fl ) 114
Fluorine ( F ) 9
Francium ( Fr ) 87
Gadolinium ( Gd ) 64
Gallium ( Ga ) 31
Germanium ( Ge ) 32
Gold ( Au ) 79
Hafnium ( Hf ) 72
Hassium ( Hs ) 108
Helium ( He ) 2
Holmium ( Ho ) 67
Hydrogen ( H ) 1
Indium ( In ) 49
Iodine ( I ) 53
Iridium ( Ir ) 77
Iron ( Fe ) 26
Krypton ( Kr ) 36
Lanthanum ( La ) 57
Lawrencium ( Lr ) 103
Lead ( Pb ) 82
Lithium ( Li ) 3
Livermorium ( Lv ) 116
Lutetium ( Lu ) 71
Magnesium ( Mg ) 12
Manganese ( Mn ) 25
Meitnerium ( Mt ) 109
Mendelevium ( Md ) 101
Mercury ( Hg ) 80
Molybdenum ( Mo ) 42
Neodymium ( Nd ) 60
Neon ( Ne ) 10
Neptunium ( Np ) 93
Nickel ( Ni ) 28
Niobium ( Nb ) 41
Nitrogen ( N ) 7
Nobelium ( No ) 102
Osmium ( Os ) 76
Oxygen ( O ) 8
Palladium ( Pd ) 46
Phosphorus ( P ) 15
Platinum ( Pt ) 78
Plutonium ( Pu ) 94
Polonium ( Po ) 84
Potassium ( K ) 19
Praseodymium ( Pr ) 59
Promethium ( Pm ) 61
Protactinium ( Pa ) 91
Radium ( Ra ) 88
Radon ( Rn ) 86
Rhenium ( Re ) 75
Rhodium ( Rh ) 45
Roentgenium ( Rg ) 111
Rubidium ( Rb ) 37
Ruthenium ( Ru ) 44
Rutherfordium ( Rf ) 104
Samarium ( Sm ) 62
Scandium ( Sc ) 21
Seaborgium ( Sg ) 106
Selenium ( Se ) 34
Silicon ( Si ) 14
Silver ( Ag ) 47
Sodium ( Na ) 11
Strontium ( Sr ) 38
Sulfur ( S ) 16
Tantalum ( Ta ) 73
Technetium ( Tc ) 43
Tellurium ( Te ) 52
Terbium ( Tb ) 65
Thallium ( Tl ) 81
Thorium ( Th ) 90
Thulium ( Tm ) 69
Tin ( Sn ) 50
Titanium ( Ti ) 22
Tungsten ( W ) 74
Ununoctium ( Uuo ) 118
Ununpentium ( Uup ) 115
Ununseptium ( Uus ) 117
Ununtrium ( Uut ) 113
Uranium ( U ) 92
Vanadium ( V ) 23
Xenon ( Xe ) 54
Ytterbium ( Yb ) 70
Yttrium ( Y ) 39
Zinc ( Zn ) 30
Zirconium ( Zr ) 40


By Atomic Number

Atomic Number Element ( Symbol )

1 Hydrogen ( H )
2 Helium ( He )
3 Lithium ( Li )
4 Beryllium ( Be )
5 Boron ( B )
6 Carbon ( C )
7 Nitrogen ( N )
8 Oxygen ( O )
9 Fluorine ( F )
10 Neon ( Ne )
11 Sodium ( Na )
12 Magnesium ( Mg )
13 Aluminium ( Al )
14 Silicon ( Si )
15 Phosphorus ( P )
16 Sulfur ( S )
17 Chlorine ( Cl )
18 Argon ( Ar )
19 Potassium ( K )
20 Calcium ( Ca )
21 Scandium ( Sc )
22 Titanium ( Ti )
23 Vanadium ( V )
24 Chromium ( Cr )
25 Manganese ( Mn )
26 Iron ( Fe )
27 Cobalt ( Co )
28 Nickel ( Ni )
29 Copper ( Cu )
30 Zinc ( Zn )
31 Gallium ( Ga )
32 Germanium ( Ge )
33 Arsenic ( As )
34 Selenium ( Se )
35 Bromine ( Br )
36 Krypton ( Kr )
37 Rubidium ( Rb )
38 Strontium ( Sr )
39 Yttrium ( Y )
40 Zirconium ( Zr )
41 Niobium ( Nb )
42 Molybdenum ( Mo )
43 Technetium ( Tc )
44 Ruthenium ( Ru )
45 Rhodium ( Rh )
46 Palladium ( Pd )
47 Silver ( Ag )
48 Cadmium ( Cd )
49 Indium ( In )
50 Tin ( Sn )
51 Antimony ( Sb )
52 Tellurium ( Te )
53 Iodine ( I )
54 Xenon ( Xe )
55 Caesium ( Cs )
56 Barium ( Ba )
57 Lanthanum ( La )
58 Cerium ( Ce )
59 Praseodymium ( Pr )
60 Neodymium ( Nd )
61 Promethium ( Pm )
62 Samarium ( Sm )
63 Europium ( Eu )
64 Gadolinium ( Gd )
65 Terbium ( Tb )
66 Dysprosium ( Dy )
67 Holmium ( Ho )
68 Erbium ( Er )
69 Thulium ( Tm )
70 Ytterbium ( Yb )
71 Lutetium ( Lu )
72 Hafnium ( Hf )
73 Tantalum ( Ta )
74 Tungsten ( W )
75 Rhenium ( Re )
76 Osmium ( Os )
77 Iridium ( Ir )
78 Platinum ( Pt )
79 Gold ( Au )
80 Mercury ( Hg )
81 Thallium ( Tl )
82 Lead ( Pb )
83 Bismuth ( Bi )
84 Polonium ( Po )
85 Astatine ( At )
86 Radon ( Rn )
87 Francium ( Fr )
88 Radium ( Ra )
89 Actinium ( Ac )
90 Thorium ( Th )
91 Protactinium ( Pa )
92 Uranium ( U )
93 Neptunium ( Np )
94 Plutonium ( Pu )
95 Americium ( Am )
96 Curium ( Cm )
97 Berkelium ( Bk )
98 Californium ( Cf )
99 Einsteinium ( Es )
100 Fermium ( Fm )
101 Mendelevium ( Md )
102 Nobelium ( No )
103 Lawrencium ( Lr )
104 Rutherfordium ( Rf )
105 Dubnium ( Db )
106 Seaborgium ( Sg )
107 Bohrium ( Bh )
108 Hassium ( Hs )
109 Meitnerium ( Mt )
110 Darmstadtium ( Ds )
111 Roentgenium ( Rg )
112 Copernicium ( Cn )
113 Ununtrium ( Uut )
114 Flerovium ( Fl )
115 Ununpentium ( Uup )
116 Livermorium ( Lv )
117 Ununseptium ( Uus )
118 Ununoctium ( Uuo )

Tuesday, 22 March 2011

Moonwalkers - Astronauts who have walked on the Moon


Apollo 11
Armstrong, Neil A.
Aldrin, Edwin E.

Apollo 12
Conrad, Charles P
Bean, Alan L.

Apollo 14
Shepard, Alan B.
Mitchell, Edgar D.

Apollo 15
Scott, David R.
Irwin, James B.

Apollo 16
Young, John W.
Duke, Charles M.

Apollo 17
Cernan, Eugene A.
Schmitt, Harrison H.

Monday, 21 March 2011

U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Inductees


1990
Scott Carpenter
Gordon Cooper
John Glenn
Virgil Grissom
Walter Schirra
Alan Shepard
Donald Slayton

19 March 1993
Edwin Aldrin
Neil Armstrong
Frank Borman
Eugene Cernan
Michael Collins
Charles Conrad
Richard Gordon
James Lovell
James McDivitt
David Scott
Thomas Stafford
Edward White
John Young

1997
William Anders
Alan Bean
Vance Brand
Gerald Carr
Roger Chaffee
Walter Cunningham
Charles Duke
Donn Eisele
Ronald Evans
Owen Garriott
Edward Gibson
Fred Haise
James Irwin
Joseph Kerwin
Jack Lousma
Thomas Mattingly
Edgar Mitchell
William Pogue
Stuart Roosa
Harrison Schmitt
Russell Schweickart
John Swigert
Paul Weitz
Alfred Worden

2001
Robert Crippen
Joseph Engle
Frederick Hauck
Richard Truly

2003
Dan Brandenstein
Robert Gibson
Story Musgrave
Sally Ride

2004
Richard Covey
Frederick Gregory
Francis Scobee
Kathryn Sullivan
Norman Thagard

2005
Joseph Allen
Gordon Fullerton
Bruce McCandless

2006
Charles Bolden
Hank Hartsfield
Brewster Shaw

2007
Michael Coats
Steven Hawley
Jeffrey Hoffman

2008
John Blaha
Robert Cabana
Bryan O'Connor
Loren Shriver

2009
George Nelson
William Shepherd
James Wetherbee

2010
Guy Bluford
Ken Bowersox
Frank Culbertson
Kathy Thornton

Monday, 7 March 2011

The Astronomer Royal


1675–1719 John Flamsteed
1720–1742 Edmond Halley
1742–1762 James Bradley
1762–1764 Nathaniel Bliss
1765–1811 Nevil Maskelyne
1811–1835 John Pond
1835–1881 Sir George Biddell Airy
1881–1910 Sir William Christie
1910–1933 Sir Frank Dyson
1933–1955 Sir Harold Spencer Jones
1956–1971 Richard van der Riet Woolley
1972–1982 Sir Martin Ryle
1982–1990 Sir Francis Graham-Smith
1991–1995 Sir Arnold Wolfendale
1995–present Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow

Monday, 28 June 2010

Ten of the greatest scientific conundrums

How does David Beckham bend it and what shape is our universe? Ten of the greatest scientific conundrums

By MARCUS du SAUTOY - Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford

1. HOW DOES BECKHAM BEND IT?
2. WHAT SHAPE IS OUR UNIVERSE?
3. THE TRAVELLING SALESMAN PROBLEM
4. IS THERE A PATTERN IN THE PRIMES?
5. HOW CAN WE CRACK SECURITY CODES?
6. WHERE IS THE NEXT MERSENNE PRIME?
7. ARE THERE INFINITE FIBONACCI PRIMES?
8. WILL IT BE SUNNY NEXT WEEK?
9. WHAT SHAPE ARE BUBBLES IN BEER?
10. HOW MANY SYMMETRICAL OBJECTS EXIST?


Read more: http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1241289/How-does-David-Beckham-bend-shape-universe-Ten-greatest-scientific-conundrums.html#ixzz0s8mEvLVZ

Ten of the greatest: Philosophical principles

Ten of the greatest: Philosophical principles

By JULIAN BAGGINI, Editor of The Philosopher's Magazine

1. THE HARM PRINCIPLE
by JOHN STUART MILL, 1806-1873

2. THE PRINCIPLE OF SUFFICIENT REASON
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ 1646- 1716

3. THE MEAN
by ARISTOTLE, 382BC- 322BC

4. THE FALSIFICATION PRINCIPLE
by KARL POPPER, 1902-1994

5. OUGHT IMPLIES CAN
by IMMANUEL KANT, 1724-1804

6. THE PRINCIPLE OF EVIDENCE
by DAVID HUME, 1771-1776

7. THE PRINCIPLE OF CHARITY
by DONALD DAVIDSON 1917 -2003

8. THE DIFFERENCE PRINCIPLE
by JOHN RAWLS, 1921 -2002

9. JUST WAR
by THOMAS AQUINAS, 1225 -1274

10. OCCAM'S RAZOR
by WILLIAM OF OCCAM, 1288-1348

Read more: http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1279320/Ten-greatest-Philosophical-principles.html#ixzz0s8jzuyDM

Ten of the greatest: Maths puzzles

Ten of the greatest: Maths puzzles

By CLIFF PICKOVER, Author of The Math Book

1. ARCHIMEDES' STOMACHION, c250 BC
2. WHEAT ON A CHESSBOARD, 1256
3. TOWER OF HANOI, 1883
4. ROPE AROUND THE EARTH PUZZLE, 1702
5. KONIGSBERG BRIDGES, 1736
6. PRINCE RUPERT'S PROBLEM, 1816
7. FIFTEEN PUZZLE, 1874
8. THIRTY-SIX OFFICERS PROBLEM, 1779
9. RUBIK'S CUBE, 1974
10. BARBER PARADOX, 1901

Read more: http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1284909/Ten-greatest-Maths-puzzles.html#ixzz0s8jBTi1H

Ten of the greatest ideas that changed the world

Ten of the greatest ideas that changed the world

By TIM CRANE, Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University

1. THE COMPUTER
2. THE COPERNICAN REVOLUTION
3. DEMOCRACY
4. COMMUNISM
5. RELATIVITY
6. FREE MARKET
7. QUANTUM THEORY
8. EVOLUTION
9. FEMINISM
10. HUMAN RIGHTS

Read more: http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1263952/Ten-greatest-ideas-changed-world-Tim-Crane.html#ixzz0s8hTBqNl

Ten of the greatest British design classics

Ten of the greatest British design classics

By SIR JAMES DYSON, Inventor of the iconic Dyson vacuum cleaner and technology tsar of the Conservative party

1. NEW BRITISH SUBMARINE
BAE SYSTEMS

2. COLOSSUS, THE FIRST COMPUTER
TOMMY FLOWERS

3. MINI
BMC

4. CT BRAIN SCANNER
EMI

5. ANGLEPOISE LAMP
G CARDWARDINE

6 GLOSTER E28/39
FRANK WHITTLE

7 JCB DIGGER
JOSEPH BAMFORD

8 MOULTON BICYCLE
ALEX MOULTON

9 HOVERCRAFT
CHRISTOPHER COCKERELL

10 SCIENCE MUSEUM BRIDGE
WILKINSON EYRE

Read more: http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1246544/SIR-JAMES-DYSON-Ten-greatest-British-design-classics-by.html#ixzz0s8ggx6fh

Ten 30 Second Theories

Ten of the greatest: 30-second theories

1. THE PRINCIPLE OF LEAST ACTION
2. MEMETICS
3. QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
4. PANSPERMIA
5. PLACEBO EFFECT
6. SNOWBALL EARTH SNOWBALL EARTH
7. RARE EARTH
8. THE EKPYROTIC UNIVERSE
9. ENTANGLEMENT
10. FINITE

Taken from - '30 Second Theories: The 50 Most Thought-Provoking Theories in Science, Each Explained in Half a Minute' (Icon Books)

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