How many neutrons can an atom hold?
OCT 26, 2007
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.021612
Nature news : Atoms can be more overweight than we thought, a team of scientists in the United States has discovered.They have sent atoms crashing into one another in a particle accelerator to create bloated versions of the elements aluminium and magnesium. The new, artificial forms of these metals have many more neutrons in their atomic nuclei than do the everyday versions1
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