A new chart for highly charged ions (HCIs) has been proposed, aiming to replicate the conventional periodic table’s ...

For many years, cesium atomic clocks have been reliably keeping time around the world. But the future belongs to even more accurate clocks: optical atomic clocks. In a few years' time, they could ...

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And the one thing I'll just add is, like we announced yesterday, I mean, we announced those agreements and those partnership ...

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IN 1937, Perrier and Segrè showed that radioactive isotopes of element 43 could be formed by neutron or deuteron bombardment of molybdenum 1. Several chemical properties of element 43 were established ...

IN 1940, we prepared the isotope of mass 211 of element 85 by bombarding bismuth with alpha particles accelerated in the 60-in. cyclotron of the Radiation Laboratory of the University of California 1.

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