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Particle and nuclear

How FRIB will expand our chemical universe

16 Feb 2021 James Dacey

We could be on the cusp of the greatest single expansion of our known chemical universe in history. That’s thanks to a new accelerator in Michigan is going to double the number of known isotopes. This short video introduces the $750m Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), which will come online at Michigan State University in 2022.

Find out more by reading ‘Biggest expansion of known chemical universe targeted by FRIB nuclear facility’, a feature originally published in the February 2021 issue of Physics World.

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