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Science 3 August 2001:
Vol. 293. no. 5531, pp. 777 - 778
DOI: 10.1126/science.293.5531.777a
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HEAVY-ION PHYSICS:
Berkeley Crew Unbags Element 118

Charles Seife

The superheavy element 118 just displayed an exotic property that nobody predicted: the ability to vanish into thin air. Physicists who thought they had created the most massive chemical element have retracted their claim in a short statement submitted to Physical Review Letters.

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