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To: MtnClimber
The heavier atoms have to be created artificially and are so unstable they don't last long.

I had read that scientists are speculating that a new row of elements may be stable. Sounds impossible, but much of what we take for granted now was deemed impossible a century ago.

24 posted on 02/02/2016 5:19:34 PM PST by roadcat
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To: roadcat
I had read that scientists are speculating that a new row of elements may be stable.

Yes. The so called Island of Stability.

53 posted on 02/02/2016 6:47:45 PM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain.)
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