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New Heavy Metal Molecule Could Reveal What Goes on Inside Nuclear Waste


Since it was first synthesized in a post-WW2 American lab in 1949, berkelium has been a rebel of the periodic table, defying quantum mechanics and taking on an extra positive charge that its relatives would never.

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