[seas3to5]

Rutherfordium


Basically I am a Skeptic that deals with the game of craps. I picked up a book at the library today on cheating in the casinos. I came across this; the writer claimed that they were using Rutherfordium mixed with paint to load dice.
I did some quick research, and from what I found there is no way that would work if you could even buying it!
So I found your site and thought that I could get the answer to my questions!

 A.  Could you buy Rutherfordium?
 B.   Isn't it dangerous to handle?
 C.   Doesn't it decay away?
 D.   The information I found was from 2008
 E.    This author claimed that it was also magnetic, and that they were using electromagnets under the table to stop the dice. Could that be true?

I say no way to all of it, but I need to know if any of this would work before I post on a craps playing forum, busting this author on what he wrote!

Thanks seas3to5

[Mitch]

You are very lucky, I just finished my PhD thesis last year on Rutherfordium chemistry, The longest half-life of Rutherfordium is 1 minute. The fastest amount of time you can make an atom of Rutherfordium is one atom a second. You can see very quickly that even if you made a huge amount of Rutherfordium it would mostly be gone 10 minutes after you make it. Definitely not enough time to go to the casino and play a game of craps. There are also only 4 or 5 places in the world that can make it: Berkeley, Germany, Russia, Japan.

[seas3to5]

Thanks  Mitch

I didn’t think that it could be true and yes it was lucky for me that I found this site.
You will never know how much I appreciate your reply!

Thanks for all your hard work that you put into your PhD, people like you make our lives a lot better. We all take it for granted what went into making a post to a reply on any of these questions. Hats off to all of you guys!

[vmelkon]

Since most people don't know much about chemistry and substances in general...