With the debate over Lazar's contention that UFOs are powered by an unknown element called Element 115, I thought the following update from the physics newsgroup may be of interest.
ELEMENT 111 HAS BEEN DISCOVERED at the same German lab, the Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung (or GSI for short) in Darmstadt, where a few weeks ago the discovery of Element 110 was announced. Element 111 has an atomic weight of 272 and was created by shooting a bismuth beam at a nickel target. Only a few of the new atoms were detected, and they quickly decayed after the original collision. One of the daughter particles, an atom of Element 109 with an atomic weight of 268, and one of the further decay products, an atom of Element 107 with an atomic weight of 264, were themselves isotopes that had never been observed before. (New York Times, 22 December 1994.)From: "Steve Meaders"
On 22 Dec. 1994 the local paper had an Associated Press story (with material from the New York Times) that the Heavy Ion Research Center in Darmstadt, Germany, has announced that they detected atoms of element 111 in recent experiments. They bombarded a bismuth target with nickel atoms to produce the new element, whose atoms decayed after 4/1000 second. Element 111 is in the same group on the periodic table as copper, silver, and gold. Spokesman Guenter Siegert says 112 could be produced in 1995 and that 113 and 114 also are theoretically within reach.From: ecannon@mail.utexas.edu (Ed Cannon)Only 4 more elements to element 115, the infamous "Lazarium"!
Actual information from GSI is here.
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