Researchers may have found a way to create a new superheavy element, known as "element 120," which would be so hefty that it ...
These long lost supergroups are definitely worth remembering today, and a few of them might just be new to you.
Chapman's other book, Superheavy, delves into the periodic table. While that might not sound super interesting or very fact-heavy, Chapman crafts a narrative that makes the audience feel the magic ...
Yet there is also a class of elements so unstable they can only be made in a lab. These superheavy elements are the purview of a small group stretching the boundaries of chemistry. Can they extend the ...
In the search for superheavy elements, element 112 was a stepping stone towards the 'islands of stability'. Sigurd Hofmann now relates the steps that led to its 'creation' and detection.