elements (chemical)

• 100 exist in local universes; 1000 in Havona

14:2.3The ma­te­rial of Ha­vona con­sists of the or­ga­ni­za­tion of ex­actly one thou­sand ba­sic chem­i­cal el­e­ments and the bal­anced func­tion of the seven forms of Ha­vona en­ergy. Each of these ba­sic en­er­gies man­i­fests seven phases of ex­ci­ta­tion, so that the Ha­vona na­tives re­spond to forty-nine dif­fer­ing sen­sa­tion stim­uli. In other words, viewed from a purely phys­i­cal stand­point, the na­tives of the cen­tral uni­verse pos­sess forty-nine spe­cial­ized forms of sen­sa­tion. The mor­ontia senses are sev­enty, and the higher spir­i­tual or­ders of re­ac­tion re­sponse vary in dif­fer­ent types of be­ings from sev­enty to two hun­dred and ten.

• transmutation of e. is source of solar energy

41:7.52. Trans­mu­ta­tion of el­e­ments, in­clud­ing the ra­dioac­tive group of en­er­gies thus lib­er­ated.

• transmutation of e. is source of solar energy

41:8.1In those suns which are en­cir­cuited in the space-en­ergy chan­nels, so­lar en­ergy is lib­er­ated by var­i­ous com­plex nu­clear-re­ac­tion chains, the most com­mon of which is the hy­dro­gen-car­bon-he­lium re­ac­tion. In this meta­mor­pho­sis, car­bon acts as an en­ergy cat­a­lyst since it is in no way ac­tu­ally changed by this pro­cess of con­vert­ing hy­dro­gen into he­lium. Un­der cer­tain con­di­tions of high tem­per­a­ture the hy­dro­gen pen­e­trates the car­bon nu­clei. Since the car­bon can­not hold more than four such pro­tons, when this sat­u­ra­tion state is at­tained, it be­gins to emit pro­tons as fast as new ones ar­rive. In this re­ac­tion the in­go­ing hy­dro­gen par­ti­cles come forth as a he­lium atom.

• 100 exist in local universes; 1000 in Havona

42:7.4The lo­cal uni­verses are of dec­i­mal con­struc­tion. There are just one hun­dred dis­tin­guish­able atomic ma­te­ri­al­iza­tions of space-en­ergy in a dual uni­verse; that is the max­i­mum pos­si­ble or­ga­ni­za­tion of mat­ter in Neb­a­don. These one hun­dred forms of mat­ter con­sist of a reg­u­lar se­ries in which from one to one hun­dred elec­trons re­volve around a cen­tral and rel­a­tively com­pact nu­cleus. It is this or­derly and de­pend­able as­so­ci­a­tion of var­i­ous en­er­gies that con­sti­tutes mat­ter.

• heavier e. not found on surface of many worlds

42:7.5Not ev­ery world will show one hun­dred rec­og­niz­able el­e­ments at the sur­face, but they are some­where pres­ent, have been pres­ent, or are in pro­cess of evo­lu­tion. Con­di­tions sur­round­ing the ori­gin and sub­se­quent evo­lu­tion of a planet de­ter­mine how many of the one hun­dred atomic types will be ob­serv­able. The heav­ier atoms are not found on the sur­face of many worlds. Even on Uran­tia the known heav­ier el­e­ments man­i­fest a ten­dency to fly to pieces, as is il­lus­trated by ra­dium be­hav­ior.

42:7.6Sta­bil­ity of the atom de­pends on the num­ber of elec­tri­cally in­ac­tive neu­trons in the cen­tral body. Chem­i­cal be­hav­ior is wholly de­pen­dent on the ac­tiv­ity of the freely re­volv­ing elec­trons.

42:7.7In Or­von­ton it has never been pos­si­ble nat­u­rally to as­sem­ble over one hun­dred or­bital elec­trons in one atomic sys­tem. When one hun­dred and one have been ar­ti­fi­cially in­tro­duced into the or­bital field, the re­sult has al­ways been the in­stan­ta­neous dis­rup­tion of the cen­tral pro­ton with the wild dis­per­sion of the elec­trons and other lib­er­ated en­er­gies.

• above #90, electrons may escape

42:7.9The thirty in­ner­most or­bital elec­trons have in­di­vid­u­al­ity, but their en­ergy sys­tems tend to in­ter­min­gle, ex­tend­ing from elec­tron to elec­tron and well-nigh from or­bit to or­bit. The next thirty elec­trons con­sti­tute the sec­ond fam­ily, or en­ergy zone, and are of ad­vanc­ing in­di­vid­u­al­ity, bod­ies of mat­ter ex­ert­ing a more com­plete con­trol over their at­ten­dant en­ergy sys­tems. The next thirty elec­trons, the third en­ergy zone, are still more in­di­vid­u­al­ized and cir­cu­late in more dis­tinct and def­i­nite or­bits. The last ten elec­trons, pres­ent in only the ten heav­i­est el­e­ments, are pos­sessed of the dig­nity of in­de­pen­dence and are, there­fore, able to es­cape more or less freely from the con­trol of the mother nu­cleus. With a min­i­mum vari­a­tion in tem­per­a­ture and pres­sure, the mem­bers of this fourth and out­er­most group of elec­trons will es­cape from the grasp of the cen­tral nu­cleus, as is il­lus­trated by the spon­ta­neous dis­rup­tion of ura­nium and kin­dred el­e­ments.

• above #27 are less predictable

42:7.10The first twenty-seven atoms, those con­tain­ing from one to twenty-seven or­bital elec­trons, are more easy of com­pre­hen­sion than the rest. From twenty-eight up­ward we en­counter more and more of the un­pre­dictabil­ity of the sup­posed pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute. But some of this elec­tronic un­pre­dictabil­ity is due to dif­fer­en­tial ul­ti­ma­tonic ax­ial rev­o­lu­tion­ary ve­loc­i­ties and to the un­ex­plained “hud­dling” pro­cliv­ity of ul­ti­ma­tons. Other in­flu­ences—phys­i­cal, elec­tri­cal, mag­netic, and grav­i­ta­tional—also op­er­ate to pro­duce vari­able elec­tronic be­hav­ior. Atoms there­fore are sim­i­lar to per­sons as to pre­dictabil­ity. Statis­ti­cians may an­nounce laws gov­ern­ing a large num­ber of ei­ther atoms or per­sons but not for a sin­gle in­di­vid­ual atom or per­son.

• properties recur in groups of 7

42:9.2The num­ber seven is ba­sic to the cen­tral uni­verse and the spir­i­tual sys­tem of in­her­ent trans­mis­sions of char­ac­ter, but the num­ber ten, the dec­i­mal sys­tem, is in­her­ent in en­ergy, mat­ter, and the ma­te­rial cre­ation. Nev­er­the­less the atomic world does dis­play a cer­tain pe­ri­odic char­ac­ter­i­za­tion which re­curs in groups of seven—a birth­mark car­ried by this ma­te­rial world in­dica­tive of its far-dis­tant spir­i­tual ori­gin.

42:9.3This sev­en­fold per­sis­tence of cre­ative con­sti­tu­tion is ex­hib­ited in the chem­i­cal do­mains as a re­cur­rence of sim­i­lar phys­i­cal and chem­i­cal prop­er­ties in seg­re­gated pe­ri­ods of seven when the ba­sic el­e­ments are ar­ranged in the or­der of their atomic weights. When the Uran­tia chem­i­cal el­e­ments are thus ar­ranged in a row, any given qual­ity or prop­erty tends to re­cur by sev­ens. This pe­ri­odic change by sev­ens re­curs di­min­ish­ingly and with vari­a­tions through­out the en­tire chem­i­cal ta­ble, be­ing most markedly ob­serv­able in the ear­lier or lighter atomic group­ings. Start­ing from any one el­e­ment, af­ter not­ing some one prop­erty, such a qual­ity will change for six con­sec­u­tive el­e­ments, but on reach­ing the eighth, it tends to reap­pear, that is, the eighth chem­i­cally ac­tive el­e­ment re­sem­bles the first, the ninth the sec­ond, and so on. Such a fact of the phys­i­cal world un­mis­tak­ably points to the sev­en­fold con­sti­tu­tion of an­ces­tral en­ergy and is in­dica­tive of the fun­da­men­tal re­al­ity of the sev­en­fold di­ver­sity of the cre­ations of time and space. Man should also note that there are seven col­ors in the nat­u­ral spec­trum.

• architectural worlds abound in so-called precious e.

46:5.31The ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans di­rect the sporna­gia and pro­vide the host of cre­ative dec­o­ra­tions and mon­u­men­tal memo­ri­als which abound in ev­ery place of pub­lic as­sem­bly. The stu­dios of these ar­ti­sans are among the largest and most beau­ti­ful of all the match­less struc­tures of this won­der­ful world. The other cour­tesy colonies main­tain ex­ten­sive and beau­ti­ful head­quar­ters. Many of these build­ings are con­structed wholly of crys­tal gems. All the ar­chi­tec­tural worlds abound in crys­tals and the so-called pre­cious met­als.

• architectural spheres have 100, like evolved planets, plus 100 morontia forms

48:1.3All of these worlds are ar­chi­tec­tural spheres, and they have just dou­ble the num­ber of el­e­ments of the evolved plan­ets. Such made-to-or­der worlds not only abound in the heavy met­als and crys­tals, hav­ing one hun­dred phys­i­cal el­e­ments, but like­wise have ex­actly one hun­dred forms of a unique en­ergy or­ga­ni­za­tion called mor­ontia ma­te­rial. The Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers and the Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors are able so to mod­ify the rev­o­lu­tions of the pri­mary units of mat­ter and at the same time so to trans­form these as­so­ci­a­tions of en­ergy as to cre­ate this new sub­stance.

• radioactive e. brought in by meteors

57:7.3Def­i­nite vol­canic ac­tion dates from these times. The in­ter­nal heat of the earth con­tin­ued to be aug­mented by the deeper and deeper burial of the ra­dioac­tive or heav­ier el­e­ments brought in from space by the me­te­ors. The study of these ra­dioac­tive el­e­ments will re­veal that Uran­tia is more than one bil­lion years old on its sur­face. The ra­dium clock is your most re­li­able time­piece for mak­ing sci­en­tific es­ti­mates of the age of the planet, but all such es­ti­mates are too short be­cause the ra­dioac­tive ma­te­ri­als open to your scrutiny are all de­rived from the earth’s sur­face and hence rep­re­sent Uran­tia’s com­par­a­tively re­cent ac­quire­ments of these el­e­ments.