Date: 28/08/2013 21:12:56
From: dv
ID: 380606
Subject: Super-heavy pnictogen confirmed!

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/08/28/3835999.htm

An international team of researchers, led by physicists from Lund University, have found evidence of the new, super-heavy element, as part of an experiment at GSI research facility in Germany.

It confirms earlier experiments by scientists at Russia’s Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and the US Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory almost a decade ago

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Eka-bismuth

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Date: 28/08/2013 21:15:44
From: furious
ID: 380608
Subject: re: Super-heavy pnictogen confirmed!

Well-known chemical elements include carbon, silicon and iron.

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Date: 28/08/2013 21:16:27
From: dv
ID: 380609
Subject: re: Super-heavy pnictogen confirmed!

furious said:


Well-known chemical elements include carbon, silicon and iron.

Thanks, furious

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Date: 28/08/2013 21:18:59
From: furious
ID: 380611
Subject: re: Super-heavy pnictogen confirmed!

It was the sign off line in an article I linked to earlier…

The periodic table is now wrong

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Date: 28/08/2013 21:31:46
From: dv
ID: 380616
Subject: re: Super-heavy pnictogen confirmed!

I must have been on drugs about a year ago because I totally missed the news that elements 116 and 114 had been name.

Livermorium. ROFL.

At least Flerovium is ultimately named after a scientist.

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