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Science 18 February 2000:
Vol. 287. no. 5456, p. 1184
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5456.1184a
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NUCLEAR PHYSICS:
Double Magic for New Nickel Nucleus

Adrian Cho

In what you might call a smashing success, physicists have chiseled out an atomic nucleus laden with a record eight more protons than neutrons. The new nucleus, nickel-48, self-destructs in a fraction of a second, but it may help researchers study a form of radioactive decay that they have long sought but not yet observed.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)