Element 118 Created

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday October 14, 2006 @05:28PM 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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Er, what? by dysjunct · 2006-10-14 18:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The densest element so far was found in Dubya? Guess he's a member of the reality-based community after all!
I guess it's true... by borderpatrol · 2006-10-14 19:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

They created the new element by fusing together Californium (element 98) and Calcium atoms.
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Re:Um... so? by Klaidas · 2006-10-14 22:23 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Was there any reason to create anything above 640K? I mean, wasn't it enough for everybody?!