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Nuclear physics

FRIB finds five new isotopes in platinum fragments

04 Mar 2024
FRIB at MSU
Isotope factory: the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University. (Courtesy: FRIBComm/CC BY-SA 4.0)
By colliding heavy ions, physicists in the US have created five previously unseen nuclear isotopes.

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