Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory aims to produce heavier elements by firing titanium particles at metal targets
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The race to discover new chemical elements will intensify in 2025, with the heaviest element ever discovered and, if successful, adding a new column to the periodic table.
“Patience will be the biggest challenge,” he says Jaclyn Gates at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in California.
Gates and his colleagues are one of many teams currently trying to create Element 120, also known as Ambinirium. Attempts to counterfeit synthetic substances that do not exist naturally on earth…
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