Admittedly, just getting the experiment done at all is pretty impressive. The isotope of seaborgium used, 265Sg, has a half-life of only 16 seconds. It has to be produced in a particle accelerator, which means its normally rather energetic and part of a cloud of energetic debris. So, the technique involved slowing it down and separating it, letting it undergo a chemical reaction, and only then could they characterize something about the resulting chemicals behavior.
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 03:23:45 +0000
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