Superheavy Element 114 Confirmed: A Stepping Stone to the Island of Stability

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have been able to confirm the production of the superheavy element 114, ten years after a group in Russia, at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, first claimed to have made it. The search for 114 has long been a key part of the quest for nuclear science’s hoped-for Island of Stability. “By verifying the production of element 114, we have removed any doubts about the validity of the Dubna group’s claims,” says Nitsche. “This proves that the most interesting superheavy elements can in fact be made in the laboratory.”

[Dr Lecter]

Will this heavy element fill a need for the Kremlin exotic poisons lab?

[ukrainian moscovite]

dolbaeb

[northern gates]

Dr Lecter, can I invite you for cup of tea?

[Dr Lecter]

Obviously the Kremlin assassinations by poisoning with exotic rare earth elements or their isotopes has not been forgotten by Marina Litvinenko....

Wife of poisoned Russian spy criticises Moscow visit

The widow of the Russian dissident assassinated by radiation poison in London has criticised the prospect of a visit to Moscow by the Foreign Secretary.

Marina Litvinenko - whose husband Alexander's poisoning in November 2006 sparked a major diplomatic row between the UK and Russia - said she was ''deeply dismayed'' at reports David Miliband would travel to the Russian capital next month.....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/626036...

[Dan]

Dr Lecter
lol I somewhy think they would just shoot in the nape instead of using some extra-expensive elements produced in extremely small quantities.