Which is the heaviest naturally occurring element?
Uranium is one of these things is the heaviest naturally occurring mineral in the periodic table. The table goes up higher, but this is where it ends. This stuff seems to hit some invisible wall of nature where it has this really big nucleus, this nucleus of 92 protons, and the center can't hold.
What are your thoughts on this subject?
7 Comments
Richard G Schwartz
Was the answer made up?
Sean Philips
Appalling explanation
Bob Goodall
Heaviest nucleus
John W Shreve
Jim Hill, You actually have people with whom you discuss this?
Joseph A. Robitaille
I figured it was uranium.
lonnycorbin
Osmium is a manufactured element, not found in nature.
Jim Hill
just ask this question the other day and still more people said lead. and I don't believe uranium is the heaviest naturally occouring element. i think osmium is.