Russians fill gap in periodic table in search for more stable heavy elements
Thursday, April 8, 2010 - 15:29
in Physics & Chemistry
With some help from the U.S., Russian physicists create atoms for element 117, whose decay provided evidence that atoms with large numbers of neutrons are more stable. Russian physicists have for the first time created atoms of the super-heavy element 117, filling a gap in the periodic table and providing further evidence that research is close to reaching a predicted "island of stability"...