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Element 118 discovered at Berkeley

08 Jun 1999

NB: The publication on which this article is based has been retracted by its authors. The retraction followed an investigation into alleged scientific misconduct by one of the authors, Victor Ninov. We are leaving this article here for archival purposes.

The new elements were made by bombarding a lead-208 target with an intense beam of high- energy kry

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