The 117th Element

A joint Russian and American research team of atheists has defied the supremacy of a divine creator once again by discovering another synthetic and highly-unstable heavy element for the periodic table. This discovery was not one of those "Eureka!" accidents in a chemistry lab. The 117th was discovered by spending 70 days shooting calcium atoms at berkelium atoms. Sure, sounds like a 70-day thrill ride, but the resulting six atoms of the new element only lasted for a tiny fraction of a second.

The target atom, berkelium, is itself a synthetic element created by bombarding americium with ions. Americium is also a synthetic element created by bombarding plutonium with neutrons. You know, plutonium, which occurs naturally, but is so rare that our supply is derived from bombarding uranium with neutrons.

After a lot of bombarding things that were made out of other bombarded things, scientists had their new element, which they temporarily dubbed ununseptium (Latin for 117-ness). The atomic structure for ununseptium is very elaborate and all that bombarding reminded me of something:

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