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Livermorium and Flerovium join the periodic table of elements

(Phys.org) -- The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) today officially approved new names for elements 114 and 116, the latest heavy elements to be added to the periodic table.

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created May 31, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (10) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Livermore and Russian scientists propose new names for elements 114 and 116

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) today recommended new proposed names for elements 114 and 116, the latest heavy elements to be added to the periodic table.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Six new isotopes of the superheavy elements discovered

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has detected six isotopes, never seen before, of the superheavy elements 104 through 114. Starting ...

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created Oct 26, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (29) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Superheavy Element 114 Confirmed: A Stepping Stone to the Island of Stability

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have been able to confirm the production of the superheavy element 114, ten years after a group in Russia, ...

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created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (38) | comments 13




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Nuclear missing link created at last: Superheavy element 117 (Update)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A collaboration of Russian and US physicists has finally created element 117 - a superheavy element made of atoms containing 117 protons that is roughly 40% heavier than lead.

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created Apr 06, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (28) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Nuclear scientists eye future landfall on a second 'island of stability'

Modern-day scientific Magellans and Columbus’s, exploring the uncharted seas at the fringes of the Periodic Table of the Elements, have landed on one long-sought island — the fabled Island of Stability, home ...

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created Apr 06, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (40) | comments 1

Controversy-plagued superheavy element 118 finally created

Element 118 has been indirectly discovered in experiments conducted at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions in Dubna, Russia by a collaboration of researchers from Russia's Joint Institute for Nuclear ...

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created Oct 16, 2006 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (107) | comments 1

Super-heavy nuclei take shape in 'extreme' new theories

Advanced computational methods and supporting experiments, including work performed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, are giving scientists a better understanding of the nature and ...

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created Feb 17, 2005 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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