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This is one of the biggest scientific achievements in recent times. New super-heavy element 117 'ununseptium' made in German lab
New Super-Heavy Element is being talked about across the world at the moment. If reports are to be believed, German scientists have successfully created new Super-Heavy Element 117.
Scientists are claiming that this is going to be a new beginning in the field and that this is going to prove very important in coming days.
They have called the new super heavy element 117 as ununseptium, though it is not a permanent name of the new element.
This is an element that didn't come into being naturally. Instead it has been created in one of the best science laboratories across the world. This magic was made possible at GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research, an accelerator laboratory in Darmstadt, Germany
There is no denying the fact that the whole scientific community across the world is excited about the development. "This is an important scientific result and a compelling example of international cooperation in science, advancing super-heavy element research by leveraging the special capabilities of national laboratories in Germany and the US" said Thom Mason director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in a statement.
So the new achievement is going to give impetus to more serious research in the field. Prof. Horst Stöcker, scientific director at the GSI, said: "The successful experiments on element 117 are an important step on the path to the production and detection of elements situated on the 'island of stability' of superheavy elements."
Scientists working on this serious and very important project say that this element that is called 117 because of the fact that it is an atom with 117 protons in its nucleus was thought to be missing items on the periodic table of elements.
But the development is not new and sudden and has been talked about in the past. Reports suggest that it was first mentioned by a team of American and Russian scientists working together at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia in the year 2010. Since then its confirmation has been a continuous process.
Now a question...what does it do for humanity?