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Heaviest element yet within reach after major breakthrough
Nature ^ | 23JUL2024 | Katherine Bourzac

Posted on 07/25/2024 9:27:52 AM PDT by AdmSmith

Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, announced today that they have for the first time used a beam of titanium to make a known superheavy element, livermorium — element 116. After upgrading the lab’s equipment, the team plans to use similar techniques to try to produce element 120. The heaviest element that has been made so far is oganesson, element 118, which was first synthesized in 2002.

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; element116; element118; element120; katherinebourzac; livermorium; oganesson; physics; science; stringtheory; unbinilium
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbinilium
1 posted on 07/25/2024 9:27:52 AM PDT by AdmSmith
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbinilium

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Towards the Discovery of New Elements: Production of Livermorium (Z=116) with 50Ti

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.16079


2 posted on 07/25/2024 9:29:56 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: AdmSmith

Rearden Metal?


3 posted on 07/25/2024 9:33:18 AM PDT by The Westerner (Independent for Trump: 2016, 2020, 2024)
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To: AdmSmith

Next: Odonnellium (formed by bombarding fat cells with Oreo particles)


4 posted on 07/25/2024 9:33:56 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: AdmSmith; SunkenCiv

5 posted on 07/25/2024 9:35:21 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s)
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To: AdmSmith

Liverwurstium...............

6 posted on 07/25/2024 9:36:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: 6SJ7; AdmSmith; AFPhys; Arkinsaw; allmost; aristotleman; autumnraine; bajabaja; ...


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7 posted on 07/25/2024 9:37:47 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: The Westerner

Mizz Rand was very far from being a physicist.

Superheavy elements are synthesized in nuclear accelerators one atom at a time, and have half-lives measured in milliseconds


8 posted on 07/25/2024 9:38:00 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Red Badger

You do realize they hate smart-alecks like us?


9 posted on 07/25/2024 9:38:15 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s)
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To: AdmSmith

The Ti beam is from a cyclotron, not mechanical.


10 posted on 07/25/2024 9:38:51 AM PDT by sasquatch (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit! c/o piytar)
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To: DoodleBob

They hate us cuz they ain’t us!.................


11 posted on 07/25/2024 9:43:16 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: AdmSmith
Unless there is a productive reason for funding this kind of research, I'm all for dumping Federal funding for what ends up as little more than scientific virtue signaling. These elements are too difficult to make for any substantial practical use.
12 posted on 07/25/2024 9:54:26 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: DoodleBob

That makes it all the more delectable!


13 posted on 07/25/2024 10:01:30 AM PDT by BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan (If in doubt, it's probably sarcasm)
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To: AdmSmith

Americium/Californium/Livermorium. They’re working toward cooking Lawrence Lab’s mailing address into the periodic table. I suggest the street name for this one.


14 posted on 07/25/2024 10:04:34 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: Red Badger

Unobtainium.

5.56mm


15 posted on 07/25/2024 10:07:07 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go. )
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To: AdmSmith

If you have to synthesize it, how is it an element? I always thought of elements as naturally occurring.


16 posted on 07/25/2024 10:08:52 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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To: AdmSmith

Damn these people. Now I have to order a new periodic table!


17 posted on 07/25/2024 10:11:01 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: NorthMountain
Superheavy elements are synthesized in nuclear accelerators one atom at a time, and have half-lives measured in milliseconds


Unless, of course, they reside in the Island of Stability.

18 posted on 07/25/2024 10:17:34 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: AdmSmith

Upsidazium (Rocky and Bullwinkle reference)


19 posted on 07/25/2024 10:17:50 AM PDT by llevrok (Say NO to a fourth Obama term!)
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To: Red Badger

I thought stupidium was the densest element.


20 posted on 07/25/2024 10:20:30 AM PDT by MortMan (Charter member of AAAAA - American Association Against Alliteration Abuse)
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