Controversy-plagued superheavy element 118 finally created
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| Description: | News article dated October 16, 2006. " Element 118 has been indirectly discovered in experiments conducted at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions in Dubna, Russia by a collaboration of researchers from Russia's Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory previously reported the synthesis of element 118 in 1999, and later retracted their results when subsequent experiments failed to confirm their discovery. Investigations revealed that evidence supporting the production of three atoms of element 118 had been fabricated by one of the key LBNL researchers. In experiments conducted at the JINR U400 cyclotron between February and June 2005, the researchers observed atomic decay patterns, or chains, that establish the existence of element 118. In these decay chains, previously observed element 116 is produced via the alpha decay of element 118." |
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| Keywords: | Californium transuranic elements Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory heavy elements |
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Berkeley Cyclotron |
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| Publication Date: | March 2008 |
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| Download URL: | http://www.physorg.com/news80226997.html |
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