Record-breaking Rf-252: Researchers produce shortest-lived superheavy nucleus and measure its subsequent decay
A team of researchers from GSI/FAIR, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz has succeeded in ...
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Scientists just got 1 step closer to creating a 'superheavy' element that is so big, it will add a new row to the periodic table
Researchers may have found a way to create a new superheavy element, known as "element 120," which would be so hefty that it ...
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Investigating superheavy elements (IMAGE)
Dr. Khuyagbaatar Jadambaa (left) and Dr. Pavol Mosat are preparing an experiment. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by ...
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Land ahoy! — Experiments at GSI/FAIR reveal the shoreline of the island of stability of superheavy elements
However, as the positively charged protons repel each other, nuclei with too many protons are at risk of splitting — a challenge in the production of new, superheavy elements. Certain ...
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Beyond the Periodic Table
Yet there is also a class of elements so unstable they can only be made in a lab. These superheavy elements are the purview of a small group stretching the boundaries of chemistry. Can they extend the ...
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Welcome copernicium?
In the search for superheavy elements, element 112 was a stepping stone towards the 'islands of stability'. Sigurd Hofmann now relates the steps that led to its 'creation' and detection.
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Chemistry in its element: sodium
Just as train spotters spend hours watching for a particular locomotive so they can underline it in their book, it may seem that these chemists laboriously produce an atom or two of a superheavy ...