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US and Soviet claims for element 106

NOV 01, 1974

A new element—number 106—may have been synthesized nearly simultaneously by two groups, one from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, USSR and the other from the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. The Dubna team mentioned their discovery at the Heavy Ion Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, last June, and the LBL–LLL group reported their findings to a meeting of the American Chemical Society in Atlantic City, N.J. in September.

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