He Ain't Heavy

… 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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  1. This will be an amazing discovery, if true, but I don’t think I’ll get too excited just yet…