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Poster sample. This great seal of the City of Dubna, Russia appears in my Photographic Periodic Table Poster representing dubnium, which was discovered there and is named after the city. This highly unstable element can't reasonably be photographed, and a picture of its namesake seemed like a reasonable alternative. The sample photograph includes text exactly as it appears in the poster, which you are encouraged to buy a copy of.  Source: Theodore Gray Contributor: Theodore Gray Acquired: 15 April, 2006 Price: Donated Size: 6" Purity: 0% |
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Sample from the Everest Set. Up until the early 1990's a company in Russia sold a periodic table collection with element samples. At some point their American distributor sold off the remaining stock to a man who is now selling them on eBay. The samples (except gasses) weigh about 0.25 grams each, and the whole set comes in a very nice wooden box with a printed periodic table in the lid. Radioactive elements like this one are represented in this particular set by a non-radioactive dummy powder, which doesn't look anything like the real element. (In this case a sample of the pure element isn't really practical anyway since the element exists as a short-lived laboratory curiosity only.) Amusingly, this ampule is labeled Nilsbohrium, a name for this element which was contested until 1997 when it was replaced by Dubnium as part of an international settlement involving a total of nine element names and a lot of horse trading. Here is an article about the naming controversy. To learn more about the set you can visit my page about element collecting for a general description and information about how to buy one, or you can see photographs of all the samples from the set displayed on my website in a periodic table layout or with bigger pictures in numerical order. Source: Rob Accurso Contributor: Rob Accurso Acquired: 7 February, 2003 Price: Donated Size: 0.2" Purity: 0% |
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