Primeval atom

This model, which ancestor is the Lemai tre Primeval atom, is but a mere 40 years old and provides a description of some other observations like, in particular, the abundances of light elements. 

Almost as soon as the island of hydrogen appeared above the waves, the Northeastern Cape of helium appeared. In the violence of the first three minutes, hydrogen atoms smashed together, such was the tumult and density of the primeval storm, and melded into helium, and the first region of the kingdom s mainland rose above the waves. Seen as a landscape of cosmic abundance, the... 

Since the earliest reported NMR investigations of humic materials, it has appeared that aromatic protons and carbon atoms cannot play as important a role in most of their structures as many early hypotheses had suggested. These primeval structures... 

The first shows in the simplest way how a balance is established between order and chaos when molecules endowed with a primeval tendency to roam all space are impelled by attractive forces to agglomerate. The second and third illustrate the subtle interplay of factors which governs the transformation from one possible atomic pattern to another and the fourth defines the sharing of energy between atomic and molecular systems and what was once called the ether, but later came to be regarded, for some purposes, as space containing photons. 

Theoretical physicists predicted the existence of the island of stability, centered at element 114 with mass number 298, in the 1960s. The term stability refers here to that of the atomic nucleus. An unstable nucleus tends to fall apart by radioactive decay—a piece spontaneously flies off the nucleus, leaving a different one behind. Approximately 275 nuclides are completely stable, or nonradioactive. All of these nuclides have atomic numbers (or numbers of protons) no greater than 83 (the atomic number for the element bismuth). Beyond bismuth, all elements are radioactive and become increasingly unstable. In fact, none of the original, primeval elements past uranium (element 92)—the transuranium elements—exists any longer they have long since vanished by radioactive decay. Scientists have made transuranium elements in the laboratory, however. 

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