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Physicists Thought The Atomic Giant Flerovium Was ‘Magical’, But It Was Just a Mirage – ScienceAlert
Protons don’t like to stay close to one another for very long. But if you’ve got the right number balanced neatly among enough neutrons, they just might build an…
Protons don’t like to stay close to one another for very long. But if you’ve got the right number balanced neatly among enough neutrons, they just might build an atom that won’t crumble apart in the blink of an eye.
Theorists had suggested 114 could be one such ‘magic’ number of protons but a recent experiment conducted at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Germany now makes that incredibly unlikely.
In 1998, Russian experimenters finally succeeded in building an element with 114…
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