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Think Zinc

Posted in Uncategorized at 9:00 am by David Bradley

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An international team of scientists has created a new isotope of the element zinc, zinc-54. They report their results in: [nucl-ex/0505016] First observation of 54Zn and its decay by two-proton emission. the discovery could help explain exactly how positively charged protons stay together in the atomic nucleus.

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