Current Events: Astronomers discover planet made of DIAMOND!!!!!!

Recently astronomers have discovered a new planet! It is said to be made almost completely of carbon, due to the density of it scientists have deiced that it must be crystalline, meaning made of pure diamond!
The Planet is about five times as big as Earth, and obrits a pulsar star (small 12.4 miles in diameter, its a dead neutron star that emits radiation, spins 100 times per second). The planet is approximately 4000 light years away with a little more mass the Jupiter but is about 20 times as dense.
All planets eventually die. And scientist have theorized that when the ploenet does reach the end it will expand and morph into a whit dwarf. If this does happen the diamond planet will begin to steel mass of of the white dwarf which will increase speed making it start to spin even faster.
Now, why is mass of diamond considered a planet? The white dwarf failed to merge with the pulsar meaning the star lost almost all of its matter....so it moved farther away from the planet meaning that now its no longer engaged in the fusion reaction. So the dead core of the planet is then classified as a planet.
Here is what Mathew Bailes from Swinburne University of Technology has to say. “The evolutionary history and amazing density of the planet all suggest it is comprised of carbon — i.e. a massive diamond orbiting a neutron star every two hours in an orbit so tight it would fit inside our own Sun.”
I think that this new discovery is very interesting and i would love to find out more about it.

The Element Sulfer

For Science Mrs.M assigned each person in the class an element that they needed to create a Prezi on that included the following on each element:

• Physical properties
• Chemical Properties of your element,
• Element Symbol, Bohr Diagram, Lewis Dot diagram
• What type of element it is
• Common Compounds (in which their element is a primary constituent),
• Occurrence and Production,
• Hazards
• Safety (For example: exposure to air, water, combination with other compounds, touching, etc...)
• USES: (Health sector use, Military use, Industrial use, and/or New Research or Emerging Technologies using their element.

The element that i had to do was Sulfer here is what i came up with: http://prezi.com/n01v8_wlmi7x/the-element-sulfer/

Building an Atom Simulation

What happens when you add a proton?
When ever you add a proton the atom stabilizes.
What does it mean when an atom is stable? What does it mean when an atom is unstable? IF the atom is stable then it means that it has enough energy to hold the nucleus together. If and atom is unstable then the energy in the atom is not strong enough to hold it together and the nuclei of the atoms are unstable. If and atom is unstable it will automatically lost neutrons and protons in the midst of trying to be stable.
How do you make an atom stable? What do you need to do?
If you want to make an atom stable then all you need to do is add the correct amount of protons.
What is the valence electron pattern as you move across the periodic table?
Valence elections are the electrons that are in the last shell (energy level) of an atom. They have a periodic pattern which is that the valence electrons will increase in the number as you go across a row. When you start a new row the number will drop back down and then begin to increase again.

What happens to the atom when there is more protons, more neutrons, or more electrons?
It becomes unstable.

What's the difference between a positive and a negative ion?
An ion is when an atom loses/gains an electron. So, when an atom loses an electron it becomes positivetly charged because o the number of protons in the atom are greater than the electrons in the atom. However, when an atom gains an electron it becomes a negative ion, because this time the number of electrons is great than the number of protons.

The Periodic Table of Elements: Metals and Non-Metals