Let’s flip over the periodic table to peek at its dark side.
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08 January 2019
In the version of this Comment originally published, the name of the author of ref. 10 was incorrectly given as “Chapman, J.”; this has now been corrected to “Chapman, K.”.
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Francl, M. Ephemeral elements. Nature Chem 11, 2–4 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-018-0189-2
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