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World's Heaviest Element May Have Been Found

The heaviest chemical element known to occur naturally in Earth's crust is uranium 92 while the heaviest chemical element known to exist, a synthetic element, bears the atomic number 118. All elements heavier than uranium are highly unstable and quickly disintegrate into other stable chemical elements – this is why they cannot occur naturally. Nevertheless, physicists have predicted that chemical elements much heavier than uranium can exist in a stable form, in an area of the Periodic Table... Read »
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