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Ununseptium 117: The beginning or the end

Impact: Nuclear Physics    April 8, 2010
Does the periodic table ever end? That becomes a real question after the discovery (manufacture, really) of a new element, temporarily called ununseptium (Latin for 117) with an atomic weight of 117. This element was especially difficult. Elements 116 and 118 were already produced. Physicists knew the gap element existed but to produce it required [...]
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Newly named: Copernicum (element 112)

News: Nuclear Physics    February 27, 2010
It’s official. The universe’s newest named element (the universe according to human perspective, of course) is: Copernicum – element 112. This isn’t the most important news in science, in fact, it’s not news since the element was discovered in Sigurd Hofmann’s lab at the Center for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany in 1996 – [...]
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