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Article: Elements of style; Nuclear physics.(Two new elements)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- February 7, 2004
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Doing it the old way
A Russian-American collaboration has created two new chemical elements
ALCHEMY, the effort to transmute base metals into gold, has fallen into disrepute of late. But even if they have given up on gold, physicists have not stopped trying to synthesise new elements. And, it seems, a team based partly in Russia's Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, north of Moscow, and partly in America's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in California, has just succeeded in adding a pair of elements to the periodic table.
In the February 2nd issue of Physical Review C, Yuri Oganessian and his colleagues describe the ...