Scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers from Dubna, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Russia, have welcomed the newest super-heavy element, element 118, into the world. Using JINR’s U400 cyclotron, the researchers established the existence of element 118 using atomic decay patterns. The decay patterns reveal that the previously […]
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