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Posted on 06/11/2009 1:59:57 PM PDT by edpc
BERLIN (Reuters) – A new, superheavy chemical element numbered 112 will soon be officially included in the periodic table, German researchers said.
A team in the southwest German city of Darmstadt first produced 112 in 1996 by firing charged zinc atoms through a 120-meter-long particle accelerator to hit a lead target.
"The new element is approximately 277 times heavier than hydrogen, making it the heaviest element in the periodic table," the scientists at the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research said in a statement late on Wednesday.
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Rosi o Donnle ?
jerroldnadlerium?
My suggestion: Michaelmooreium - the heaviest, most dense element in existence. This element has no practical industrial uses and is lethal in large doses. Reacts strongly to assorted pastries and bear claws.
I heard they were going to call it Michelle250.
“If it’s man made, just how the hell can it be an element?”
MichelleObamaAss
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