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HTTP:: Element 114 Indeed Exists Study Confirms
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Uranium is the heaviest chemical element that can be found in nature. Over the years, scientists have been trying to discover other, heavier chemicals, and their efforts yielded plutonium in the 1940s, which went on to be used for weapons of mass destruction. Others have been discovered since, but our ability to synthesize new chemicals is constantly diminishing. Therefore, when a Russian team announced in 1999 that it had discovered the elusive Element 114, the scientific community was in awe. Though it took more than a decade, American experts were recently able to confirm the find. Physicists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) managed to obtain the heavy element by firing calcium isotopes into a plutonium target, with the help of a particle accelerator. What makes obtaining heavy elements so difficult is the fact that their nuclei are unstable, and they disintegrate within fractions of a second. When the Russian t!
eam, based at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, in Dubna, reported the discovery of 114, what made it special was the fact that the element remained stable for several seconds, before breaking apart. “We’re learning the limits of nuclei. How many protons can you pack into a nucleus before it falls apart?” Berkeley ...
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