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Stories about: island of stability

Element 117 Obtained Physicists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), working together with Russian colleagues from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, were able until now to discover five of the heaviest chemicals known to man, elements 113, 114, 115, 116 and 118... 7 April 2010 05:03 GMT Searching for the 'Island of Stability' Uranium is the heaviest element that Mother Nature has to offer. At 92 protons, it is fairly massive and large, and its possible applications are no longer a secret to anyone. But physicists, and scientists in general, have never been satisfied with what nature has to offer, and have always tried to get more. Over th... 13 March 2010 03:14 GMT World's Heaviest Element May Have Been Found The heaviest chemical element known to occur naturally in Earth's crust is uranium 92 while the heaviest chemical element known to exist, a synthetic element, bears the atomic number 118. All elements heavier than uranium are highly unstable and quickly disintegrate into other stable chemical elements - this is ... 5 May 2008 06:14 GMT