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Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Z=117

It arrived!

4 comments:

  1. Funny how they report "in a particle accelerator about 75 miles north of Moscow on the Volga River". So it will be dubbed "Dubnium" or "Volgium"?

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  2. I didn't know that Dubnium was already taken: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubnium

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  3. I used to read the Dubna preprints when they were sent to Mexico in the early 70s. This brings memories.

    JINR
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Institute_for_Nuclear_Research

    Go Dubna, go!

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