Obamium

**Obamium** is a chemical element with an atomic number of 691/2 and an atomic weight of 420. It also is possibly sentient and may be the cause of many properties of Obama Ball.

## Characteristics

### Physical Properties

Obamium is a very strange element. With a non-integer atomic number, it is hard to place on the periodic table, so scientists decided to replace ytterbium with it since nobody likes ytterbium.

Obamium seems to be undamaegable, with a Mohs hardness of at least 38, possibly infinite. High quality obamium, such as that found inside of Obama Ball, is literally indestructible. Obamium has a density of 365 g/cm3.

Obamium does not melt with temperature, and instead must be convinced to melt as if it were sentient, which is still unknown. It has never been observed to vaporize.

### Forms

Low quality powdered obamium can be melted with a reasonable amount of convincing. Obamium with larger particles or higher purity is harder to melt. For a specific purity of obamium, there is a particle size where it can no longer be converted back to damageable form and it becomes fully indestructible. This is called the Reallinn Meson point, named after Reallinn Meson who discovered it in the year 199. Obamium is sometimes made into objects this large, but very few people actually do it, since accidentally doing it makes the obamium completely useless, and the obamium would be better used for other purposes.

At 99.972% purity, known as the Critical Reallinn Meson (CRM) purity, the Reallinn Meson point is 0 and all obamium is indestructible. Natural CRM-pure obamium is found as a very fine powder that is completely useless, and highly toxic, which is why most obamium mines are in regions of low-quality obamium. Only one successful attempt at making a macroscopic object from CRM-pure obamium has been made. It was a disk about 1 meter in radius that is currently trapped in the core of a neutron star.

### Chemical Properties

Obamium's chemical properties vary depending on the state of the obamium and its environment. When in a thin powder form, can react with many substances, forming oxides (ObO2, Ob2O5, Ob2O7 and Ob2O9), amides (Ob(NH2)3), hydroxides (Ob(OH)3 and Ob(OH)5), obamates (ObO42-), obamites (ObO32-), perobamates (ObO52-, ObO62-, ObO82-, and ObO122-), obamides (Ob3-, Ob4-, Ob5-, and Ob7-), helides (ObHe2), and a hydrogen cluster (ObH3564212). It reacts violently with fluorine, chlorine and anything from xtal 3D balls. Large amounts of solid pure obamium (such as Obama Ball's core) do not react with anything.

### Isotopes

#### Natural Isotopes

Obamium, with 69.5 protons in its nucleus, has 15 isotopes that occur naturally, 11 of which are stable.

#### Artificial Isotopes

Obamium isotopes which are artificial seem to decay with random seeming half lives, such as 238Ob and 256Ob being quite long lived, but 248Ob decaying in under 4 nanoseconds.

## Mining

Obamium is mined on some planets where it is easy to obtain in large quantities. It does not naturally occur on planets which are also balls. While many planets lack pee, few lack the ability to store pee. The most commonly used planets are very hot and close to their stars. Some miners even mine obamium directly from stars. The Sun has been hypothesized to contain obamium, but none has been found.

## Storage

Usually, when mass obamium storage is required, a planet with a planetary or interplanetary government will designate an entire continent to obamium storage. This can be seen from space as a slight tint in the continent's color. If obamium is stored in a small enclosed space, it may melt into what seems to be an intentionally useless structure, or possibly disappear. Nobody knows what happens to it when it does this.

## Toxicity

Radioactive obamium is very dangerous due to neutron emission. Non-radioactive obamium below its Realinn Meson point can release particles which are highly toxic and cause major damage to the bodies of most organisms. Natural CRM-pure obamium can kill an average human about 10-20 minutes after contact with skin or inhalation of air sufficiently close to it, as its particles are only a few nanometers in size.

## Possible Sentience

Obamium appears to be sentient, although it also might not be.