A New Element

[drplokta]

This (gacked from Slashdot) is an astonishing story, if true. The first element discovered (as opposed to created, or found in nature after first having been created) since 1939. And they think it has atomic number 122 and a half-life of over 100 million years. Poul Anderson was right all along.

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http://arxivblog.com/?p=385

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Page seems to have been killed by the SlashDot effect.

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Re: http://arxivblog.com/?p=385

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

No; wait.

It just takes forever to load.

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Re: http://arxivblog.com/?p=385

[drplokta]

So it does. Quick precis: international team of scientists go looking for transuranics occurring naturally (in quantities of a few atoms) in thorium, and think they've found one.