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island of stability ?



According to The New York Times (1/29/99, page A16) a single atom
of Z=114 and N=184 was created in Dubna, Russia; it lived for 30
seconds. This happened when an isotope of Pu was bombarded with an
isotope of Ca, during a four-month period, in a big cyclotron. The
information was received by e-mail and, according to Ghiorsio,
"the 88-inch Berkeley cyclotron will be used to repeat the Dubna
experiment".