[deleted] OP t1_j7hurcs wrote
Reply to comment by ECatPlay in Understanding that deuterium and tritium are simply isotopes of hydrogen, is there an equivalent periodic table that shows all known elements and their isotopes? by [deleted]
Oh gosh, this is the direction I was going! This is very neat, and I big appreciate the answer! Thank you!
I do have a question. To quick preface, my life is Lifing™ right now, so apologies if this is not very clear or based on correct thinking.
I recently came to learn about muonium. Recognizing both muonium is a recent development, and that it is fairly "exotic" in its components, I am curious about where it would end up on the table of nuclides. Using Wikipedia's table for simplicity, the top left "Z→" indicates the atomic number (right?) and thus, in ordinary matter, the number of protons (yes?). Does (or would) the atomic number of muonium equal to that of hydrogen then (in that although there are no protons, the charge of both is the same)? In short, this question is trying to ask how would muonium plug into the table?
Michkov t1_j7i7sm4 wrote
Problem is it wasn't designed to display fractions of proton masses. What gives it that pixelated look is that each isotope has an integer coordinate, since its coordinates are defined via number of nucleids vs number of protons.
Now the muon is only 11% of the proton mass, so that breaks the nice grid pattern. It also has a charge of -1 so that doesn't really correspond to the protons charge of +1.
You could modify the table, so the axis are total mass vs electrical charge. In that scheme muonium would go below the neutron line.
PS: Here is an interactive version of the table
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