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Published online 3 February 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040202-4
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Modern alchemists make two new elements
Heavy elements approach fabled ‘island of stability’.
Tantalising evidence of two new chemical elements has been produced by a team of Russian and American scientists. Their observations indicate that we may be getting close to the fabled ‘island of stability’ in the periodic table, where heavy elements should be more stable than their neighbours.
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