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Scientists create new chemical elements with superheavy atomic mass [Corrected 02/06/04]
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By JAMES GLANZ
New York Times
Sunday, February 1, 2004
A team of Russian and American scientists are reporting today that
they have created two new chemical elements, called superheavies
because of their enormous atomic mass. The discoveries fill a gap at
the furthest edge of the periodic table and hint strongly at a weird
landscape of undiscovered elements beyond.
The team, made up of scientists from Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory in California and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
in Dubna, Russia, is disclosing its findings in a paper being
published in Physical Review C, a ...
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