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Smashing heavier ions creates superheavy livermorium

03 Aug 2024
Jacklyn Gates at LBNL
Navigating to an island Jacklyn Gates adjusts the Berkeley Gas-filled Separator, which was used to identify atoms of element 116, livermorium. (Courtesy: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab)
Physicists have used a beam of titanium-50 to create the element livermorium. This is the first time

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