Atoms of a new super-heavy element — the as-yet-unnamed element 117 — have reportedly been created by scientists in Germany, moving it closer to being officially recognized as part of the standard periodic table. Researchers at the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research, an accelerator laboratory located in Darmstadt, Germany, say they have created and observed several atoms of element 117, which is temporarily named ununseptium.
Image: Element 117, first discovered by Lawrence Livermore researchers and Russian collaborators, has been reproduced by an international consortium. (Image: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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