Berkeley Lab to lead US hunt for element 120 after breakdown of collaboration with Russia (www.chemistryworld.com)

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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is setting its sights on creating element 120 as part of a new US effort to discover the first elements in row eight of the periodic table. The move follows the breakdown of the US–Russian partnership, which had previously discovered the five heaviest elements, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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[-] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

materials science.

Translation: military applications.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

But also literally everything around us? Of my friends who went into materials sci/eng, two work in civil/commercial aerospace and one went to semiconductor.

[-] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago

So you're saying we could weaponise a stapler. Message received.

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