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After 69 Years, Chemists Finally Get a Good Look at Einsteinium – Gizmodo Australia

First conceived in the combustion of a hydrogen bomb on the South Pacific island of Elugelab in 1952, the heavy element einsteinium is one of the shier members…

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First conceived in the combustion of a hydrogen bomb on the South Pacific island of Elugelab in 1952, the heavy element einsteinium is one of the shier members of the Periodic Table; it doesnt naturally occur and is so unstable that its difficult to get enough of the stuff, for long enough, to actually study it.
Now, a team of chemists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Georgetown University have managed to do just that. They inspected a microscopic amount…

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