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One Atom at a Time: The Recoil Breakthrough of Mendelevium

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A deep dive into the synthetic, radioactive element mendelevium—how neutron bombardment failed to push the element beyond fermium, the Berkeley-based recoil technique that won a Nobel Prize, and how scientists name, predict, and study a substance known from only a handful of atoms.


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One Atom at a Time: The Recoil Breakthrough of Mendelevium

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