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Superheavy element half-life measurements push back the limits of stability

Superheavy element half-life measurements push back the limits of stability

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·January 28, 2025
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bloopernova

> bombarding lead with a beam of titanium-50 accelerated to 10% the speed of light

Please forgive the poor understanding, but isn't titanium non-magnetic? How does one accelerate titanium?

mppm

They are talking about titanium ions.

bloopernova

oh, right. Thank you for helping a bear with very little brain.

squiffsquiff

My take away from this article is that the super heavy element Rutherfordium can barely be agreed to even exist outside of a theoretical sense.

mppm

Rutherfordium has relatively stable isotopes (up to 48 min) [1] and is definitely agreed to exist. This article is about extremely neutron-deficient isotopes and their excited states.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherfordium

squiffsquiff

Ah ok thank you for clarifying