Will Ununseptium now officially be named by the International Unions of Pure and Applied Physics and Chemistry?

Element 117 independently “created” by a group from GSI, who was able to reproduce previous results using Ca on Bk (Berkelium!). It is off course unstable and its decay time is “relatively long”, in the tens of milliseconds range 😉

180 seconds to explain your thesis work?

We have all heard of the 30 seconds elevator pitch. In  fact, if you search for those terms in Google, you will get over a hundred thousand hits. It seems that this has even been push to an art or even “engineered” systems.

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