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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>How come there are no gaps in the table?
Because we filled them. The table used to have gaps, then we discovered those elements.
>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?
Yes
>How come we managed to find/create every element without any gaps in the periodic table?
We didn’t, as said, the first periodic table did have gaps and then we filled them. Even in modern times we didn’t synthesize new elements sequentially:
* 103 came before 102
* 109 came before 108
* The last few came in the following order: 112, 114, 116, 118, 113, 115, and then 117.
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