Talk:G-block

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What is the idea being adding the "Period 8" and "Period 9" table to this article? These elements have never been synthesized, and most likely never will be (and, as the orbital approximation is in tatters for such high Z, the whole "g block" concept is a bit of a myth anyways)--feline1 10:07, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

You're right about Period 9, which would require breaking the speed of light barrier. Period 8 is theoretically legitimate though. Andre (talk) 05:48, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

The article says:

No elements in this region have yet been discovered in nature or synthesized artificially. The first element of the g-block would have atomic number 121, and the systematic name unbiunium.

but some of the period 8 elements have been synthesized, and if recent news is correct, at least one has been found to occur in nature. Is this information simply outdated or does it need more clarification? 66.195.255.88 (talk) 16:03, 28 April 2008 (UTC)