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Element 118 Created

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the this-time-for-sure dept.

BuzzSkyline writes, "The heaviest element yet, Element 118, has been created in Dubna, Russia by a collaboration of researchers from Russia's Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US. They created the new element by fusing together Californium (element 98) and Calcium atoms. The achievement comes five years after the scandal-plagued retraction of an earlier claim, which was based on fabricated data, that three atoms of element 118 had been produced at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. The achievement was reported on October 9 in the journal Physical Review C (subscription needed to read more than the abstract)."

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  1. Re:Big deal by s16le · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Fuck you, dickface

  2. Re:Not Politically Correct by queef_latina · · Score: -1, Flamebait

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  3. Re:Um... so? by dick+pubes · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You wouldn't understand, being a red-state fuckup and all...