Sunday, February 08, 2004

New Chemical Elements 113 and 115


Oliver Sacks has an article at the New York Times entitled Greetings From the Island of Stability where he writes:

"Last week the discovery of two new elements - 113 and 115 - was announced by a team of Russian and American scientists. There is something about such announcements that raises the spirits, thrills one, evokes thoughts of new lands being sighted, of new areas of nature revealed. "

The article goes on to discuss the new generation of elements which have been "discovered" in modern times.

In this regard, see my suggested revision of The Periodic Table of Chemical Elements .

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