Comment Re:Correlation Does Not Imply Causation (Score 1) 281
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...but completely different properties
Properties that as yet we have not encountered, have no way to experience, or measure.....possible, sure. But then if they did, this would introduce a different classification system. So rather than refer to these things as Elements we might call them Smelements...........
Hmmm, I think you're on to something here.
There might be another lighter element between lithium and hydrogen that we don't know about.
Lithium
Number of Protons/Electrons: 3
Number of Neutrons: 4
Hydrogen
Number of Protons/Electrons: 1
Number of Neutrons: 0
You are correct, there are quite a few possibilities for elements in between (whatever that really means), Many of those we call those Ions, but some are such unstable configurations (if they can exist at all) that as far as we are concerned, they don't really exist
Some of those possible combinations we refer to as Helium (or its Ions)
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