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Thread #104378 Message #2653904
Posted By: bobad
11-Jun-09 - 08:57 AM
Thread Name: BS: Random Traces From All Over
Subject: RE: BS: Random Traces From All Over
Periodic table gets a new element By Victoria Gill Science reporter, BBC News
The ubiquitous periodic table will soon have a new addition - the "super-heavy" element 112.
More than a decade after experiments first produced a single atom of the element, a team of German scientists has been credited with its discovery.
The team, led by Sigurd Hofmann at the Centre for Heavy Ion Research, must propose a name for their find, before it can be formally added to the table.