How come there are no gaps in the table? If there are 118 elements currently, and the next element to be discovered/created has an atomic number of 120, would there just be a gap at 119th position?
How come we managed to find/create every element without any gaps in the periodic table?
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There were gaps for undiscovered atoms at some point. If we called 1 apple and Adam, 2 apples a Beth, 3 apples a Charlie. We haven’t discovered 4 apples yet, but we call groups of 5 apples an Eve, and so on. Then look back, of course the names correspond to continuous numbers.
The definition of hydrogen is having 1 proton (it can have isotopes with different numbers of neutron). If we discover a new thing with 1 proton and 1337 neutron, it will be an isotope of hydrogen.
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