Modern surface chemistry – fuel cells, artificial fertilizers and clean exhaust

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2007 to Gerhard Ertl of the Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany "for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces".

The 2007 Ig Nobel Chemistry prize winner was Mayu Yamamoto (International Medical Centre of Japan) for developing a way to extract vanillin (vanilla fragrance and flavour) from cow dung. The 2007 Ig Nobel Prize winners were announced 5th October 2007 and prizes prizes awarded at Harvard in America. To celebrate, a local ice cream bar put on a tasting session of a new flavour, Yum-A-Moto Vanilla Twist, concocted in honour of the 2007 Ig Nobel Chemistry Prize winner Mayu Yamamoto. The mind boggles.

I've translated the contents of hydrogenium and helium into simplified Chinese from your site but not published on anywhere. I want to get the permission from the author in order to submit it on the Internet. Could I?

The attachment is able to be downloaded, but you should change the extensions into ".zip" before you open it.

Quite by chance I noticed that at Simon Fraser University in Canada members of staff in the Department got together to make a periodic table quilt. Looks to be about 6 feet across. I wonder if it will be updated for the latest elements?

If you go to the SFU site, click on any element to see that panel in more detail. Anyone else made a quilt like this?

...as I see the WebElements A6 size periodic table card (laminated, naturally) is the logo for the FaceBook Group "The united nerd front" - A place for nerds to unite. (if you have a mini-periodic table you get gold card membership).

The printable periodic tables held on this site at

http://www.webelements.com/nexus/Printable_Periodic_Table

have been updated 21 September 2007 to reflect the latest (2007) IUPAC values that will appear shortly in Pure & Appl. Chem. They are pdf files so pretty well anyone should be able to print them.

I'm interested in the periodic table - but not enough to get a periodic table tattoo! And here is one courtesy of o2b and writer Carl Zimmer:

He has a collection of science tattoos for you to browse.

Notes

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• The results will come out with the most intense line set to 100%. This is standard practice in mass spectrometry and is not an error!
• The formula is case sensitive. So h2o will fail but H2O will work
• Correctly nested brackets [{()}] are OK: so [Mo(CO)4{P(OCH3)3}2] will work for instance
• Compound names and element names such as water or iron are not OK

Working with element 112 is not easy - it does not occur in the wild and only a few atoms at a time can be made. In this new paper a large group of Swiss, Russian, and Polish authors report: