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He Ain’t Heavy

28 April, 2008 (15:47) | Physics

… he’s my unbibium.

Reports of a naturally occurring superheavy element

Non peer-reviewed reports, mind you, this is on arXiv

In the neighborhood of Z = 122, A = 292, abundance = 10^-12, relative to thorium, and a half-life in excess of 100 million years. Found when doing mass-spectrometry on Thorium. The half-life appears to be inferred from the relative abundance. If it’s real.

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