Or isotopes that are stable? Please help I need to do a costume on astatine? what should i do???????????
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Sorry, I didn't see the shout out Erik left me till now. First of all, and please excuse my "french", but why in the HELL did you choose to represent astatine? Couldn't you have picked something easy, like, ummm, HYDROGEN?! hahaha. Anyway, I must first say, I do not know much about radioactive elements, as I do not deal with them all that much [giggles a little]. Ok, getting to the question. Isotopes and isomers of astatine have been discovered/created, BUT the half lives of these are so short it is considered to have no significant isotopes. Does it have any compounds? Of course, it produces halides in compound form. Halides are compounds with fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, and astatine (or collectively the halogen series). I personally don't know of a specific compound that contains astatine though, but you could probably look it up. Astatine can be created by bombarding bismuth with alpha particles, and its also a decay product of uranium and thorium. I think it occurs in nature, but its so little, its pretty much insignificant. And simply doesn't stick around long enough in nature to count. You need a costume of astatine? Hmmm. Well, creating a molecular model would probably take forever!! You could probably create a "shell" model rather easily though. You will need some wire, and a bunch of little styrofoam balls. Assembly of the shell: You need something for the center of the atom, like a large cut out circle. Then you will need two different coloured dots for the protons and neutrons. AT has 85 protons and 125 neutrons. You will have to either get some little stickers or maybe paint the dots for the P's and N's. Then, you need six electron rings. Use the wire to create these rings, and they need to get larger as they grow out from the nucleus. Electrons per ring are : 2, 8, 18, 32, 18, 7. So on each ring you can string the styrofoam balls to create the electrons. Now, how to wear the model? If you want to look cute, you could somehow attach it so that it is around your waist like a bunch of Hula-Hoops, and your torso could be the nucleus. In that case, I'd just wear a black t-shirt and black pants, and stick all the little neutrons and protons on your shirt and pants. I think you'd look rather snazzy that way. Another way you could wear it is to create a sandwich board sort of thing and hang the model on the front of the sandwich board. But I think the first one would be more fun. :) I sure hope that helps a little. If you need more info, just ask. If I can answer, I'll do my best.
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Here, if I posted this correctly, you should see a cute little diagram of how to wear the first costume I described. Hope it helps as a little visual aid. I think you could look right snazzy with this costume!
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um, wow cady. just wow.
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I don't know if astatine has any compounds. I am trying to find out if astatine has any compounds so if you find any information about it someone should type it cause I need to know for my project. Thanks!