After nine years of work, a team led by Kosuke Morita at the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science in Japan has created three atoms of the highly unstable superheavy element 113. As yet nameless, it has an enormous nucleus containing 113 protons and 165 neutrons.
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