Island of heavyweights.

• Autores: Christoph E. Düllmann, Michael Block
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 318, Nº. 3, 2018, págs. 46-53
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article focuses on the scientists' efforts in the past decade to find the world's heaviest element. It refers to the discovery of oganesson in 2006 by a Russian-American research team using a particle accelerator in Dubna, Russia. It also explores the island of stability describing special arrangements of protons and neutrons that makes an element stable.