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From: Nick Balaskas <nikolaos@YorkU.CA>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 11:07:48 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Fwd Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 23:34:00 -0400
Subject: Elements 116 And 118 Discovered - So Much For


Hi everyone.

The discovery of these two isotopes of elements 116 and 118 (see
below) which have very short life spans strongly suggests that
the predicted "island of stability" for elements higher than 114
may not exist.  If these elements (and other isotopes of 116 and
118) do have such short life spans as reported, then it would be
very unlikely that Robert Lazar's element 115 is a stable
element - one that has a life long enough for practical
applications.

Nick Balaskas


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PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE
The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News
Number 432 June 7, 1999   by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein

ELEMENTS 118 AND 116 have been discovered at Lawrence Berkeley
Lab by crashing a beam of krypton atoms into lead atoms. The
three detectable atoms of element 118 have nuclei possessing 118
protons and 175 neutrons for a mass total of 293. The new
elements are even further along in the Periodic Table than
element 114, whose existence was announced back in January 1999
by scientists in Russia (see Update 412), and further into the
"island of stability," the supposed nuclear regime in which
certain combinations of neutrons and protons lead to a
relatively long life. For all that, the atoms of element 118
still decay after less than a millisecond into element 116 plus
an alpha particle. Element 116 then promptly decays into element
114 plus another alpha particle. Ken Gregorich (510-486-7860)
led the LBL group that discovered the new nuclei.  Four of the
team members are German nationals, which prompted DOE secretary
Bill Richardson to emphasize the continuing value of
international scientists working at US national labs.

(LBL press release, June 7.)

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