If you haven’t watched Iron Man 2, I suggest you should before reading this, or just read on and wonder what the hell I am talking about.
Iron Man 2 pick ups 6 months after Tony Stark announced to the world that he is Ironman. He was being pressured by the government to release his Iron Man suit and Stark Industries faces bad public relations. But all these are nothing compared to his REAL problem. Apparently, the apparatus (connected to his heart) that make living possible for him, is now slowly killing him. His body is being poisoned by the palladium in his “arc reactor” energy source.
From the suggestion of his late father (you just have to watch to know how), he created a new element to suit his heart’s need. And so he created one, and it’s that easy! OK, only in film as newscientist.com wrote:
Making a new element is not as fantastical as it might sound. New Scientist readers will know that the periodic table is a work in progress, with a new element – copernicium, atomic number 112 – officially finding its place there last year. A string of other new elements are currently being considered.
Like real-life element forgers, Tony needs some hard-core tech. He assembles what appears to be a particle accelerator and fires a beam of high speed atoms (blue in this case), at a target: presumably two existing elements.
OK, it is not the LHC snaking around his spacious lab, nor is it a “table-top particle accelerator”, in which laser beams accelerate electrons with a plasma. But whatever it is, it’s impressive.
Tony fuses the two elements together, which, presumably, have been carefully chosen so that the sum of their atomic numbers equals the atomic number of the desired element. We’re not told the atomic number, nor is the element named. We suggest “starkonium”. Though if Tony wanted to impress his PA Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), he might want to plump for “pepperonium”.
The result is almost immediate: a triangular-shaped sample of the element, which seems completely stable, and glows white. “Congratulations, you have created a new element,” announces a robotic voice. “That was easy,” says Tony.
In reality, newly minted elements tend to be made in only miniscule amounts (approximately one atom every few years or so) and are highly unstable: copernicium, despite its much-feted new place in the periodic table, has only existed for a fraction of a millisecond. Scientists rely on a “decay chain” of other elements to confirm that they have made it
So they suggest this name be called starkonium or pepperonium. What do you think guys? Can you suggest a better name for the element Tony created?
I thought the new element was Adamantium. It seems the most plausible given the set up. Captain America’s shield is MADE of Adamantium, and it was bare when the SHIELD agent picked it up. So maybe they didn’t have the adamantium to make the shield (assuming something’s already going on with Cap). ALSO, Adamantium is Marvel’s SUPER ELEMENT in the comics and every single superhero has SOMETHING to do with it. Though in the comics you can’t synthesize it, it SEEMS like the most possible element.
Hello All,
According to my collection of “The Official Handbook Of The Marvel Universe”. ISSUE #15 goes into great detail about Adamantium and Vibranium.
Captain America’s Shield is made of an alloy of both metals. Seeing The Shield in its incomplete form. I wager, Vibranium has not been introduced as of yet.
Adamantium and Vibranium; according to the handbook, are not elements unto themselves. Adamantium is a recipe of just Iron and Vibranium, can be found in only two places on earth. Wakanda in Africa and Antartica. Without going through volumes of exacting information. To the best of memory. Vibranium didn’t occur naturally to earth. Only through a meteoroid strike did Vibranium get deposited on Earth.
SGT. VEZ
Actually, Cap’s shield is made of an alloy that is a mixture of Vibranium and an experimental iron that was incorrectly identified as Adamantium for years in the comics. Just an FYI. I was wondering what the new element was myself as it’s never identified. Maybe we’ll find out later.
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There’s no word for “stark” in Latin. But the origins of the word come from old English for “unyielding” (as is Stark’s character). Lating for “resolved” is infixus. How about infixium?