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020			_a9781472953902
082			_a546.44 _bCHA
100			_aChapman, Kit
245			_aSuperheavy: making and breaking the periodic table
260			_bBloomsbury Sigma, _c2019. _aLondon:
300			_a304 p.: ill.; _bpb; _c22 cm.
365			_aINR _b499.00
440			_aBloomsbury sigma series; bk. 45.
504			_aPeriodic table of the elements on lining-papers. Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-294) and index.
520			_aSo how do you go about creating a new element? Find a 2,100-ton ion machine gun that fires six trillion ions per second at 10% the speed of light towards an unimaginably small target. It's rare that they hit, and rarer still that target and ion fuse together rather than rip apart. If they do stick together, a new element is made. Then all you need to do is separate this new hybrid from the vast quantities of unreacted material and detect it before it decays which happens in less than a second. If all of that is a success, well, congratulations! You've got yourself a brand new element. The science of element discovery is a truly fascinating field, and is constantly rewriting the laws of chemistry and physics as we know them. As recently as November 2016, four new superheavy elements, the heaviest created by man were named, stretching the periodic table to 118 elements. They have broken the rules of the periodic table, rewriting the science we're taught in school, and have the potential to revolutionise our lives. Superheavy will be the first book to take an in-depth look at how these elements are discovered, why they matter and where they will take us.
650			_aScience
650			_aChemistry
650			_aInorganic chemistry
650			_aChemical elements
650			_aSuperheavy elements
650			_aTransfermium wars
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