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02 Dec 2010, 8:10 pm

Roentgenium-111 shouldn't exist on Earth. Now a group of nuclear physicists claims to have found an ultra-stable version of it in gold.



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02 Dec 2010, 8:20 pm

Sorry - what do you mean by "in gold" ?

Do you mean that they claim to have found it in (inside) a sample of gold?


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02 Dec 2010, 8:27 pm

Click the link.



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03 Dec 2010, 12:13 am

Oh, cool.


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03 Dec 2010, 12:36 pm

Correction: one chemist claims to have found it. Thus far, there has been no peer-review of his work. One wonders if this gentleman will wind up as the next Fleischman and Pons, creators of "cold fusion" (their device would have made a pretty good battery, if palladium weren't so rare and expensive)...


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