Last summer, when more than 8 million trillion calcium ions blasted a thin film of americium atoms nonstop for more than a month, the collisions generated four atoms of never-before-seen element 115, a Russian-U.S. team now reports.
SLAM! In these artist’s renderings, a speeding calcium-48 ion bears down on a larger americium-243 atom .
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