
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory aims to create heavier elements by shooting titanium particles at a metal target
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The race to discover new chemical elements will heat up in 2025, the heaviest yet and a new row will be added. periodic table if successful.
“Patience will be the biggest challenge,” he says Jacklyn Gates at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in California.
Gates and his colleagues are one of the groups trying to produce element 120, also known today as unbinilium. Attempts to forge synthetic substances that do not exist naturally on Earth…