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To: rdcbn1; NorthMountain; z3n; null and void; Moltke; Lonesome in Massachussets; Stosh; Reily; ...
A good short presentation of the Island of Instability is
PBS Space Time: Are there Undiscovered Elements Beyond The Periodic Table?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prvXCuEA1lw

and here is Martyn Poliakoff at Periodic Videos describing Element 120 - Periodic Table of Videos and the procedure to make it (Note this is from 2011 !) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1rYuslEQLs

This is as well worth the time Superheavy Elements: The End of the Periodic Table: Ken Moody, Chief Scientist for Radiochemistry, explains that recent discoveries of new elements have extended the periodic table beyond what was thought was possible, and demonstrates the existence of a collection of Superheavy Elements with unusual nuclear properties at the limits of stability.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVqT-HRSoxI

57 posted on 07/25/2024 3:30:57 PM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: AdmSmith
Back in the 1970s there was a news story about possible detection of some stable elements in (what was at that time) a postulated island of stability in the mid-120s of the atomic numbers. The detection was in a piece of African mica, if memory serves. It'll have to serve, a web search turned up bupkis.
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59 posted on 07/25/2024 4:21:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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