Talk:Dubnium
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Article changed over to new Wikipedia:WikiProject Elements format by maveric149. Elementbox converted 10:23, 15 July 2005 by Femto (previous revision was that of 14:48, 12 July 2005).
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[edit] Information Sources
Some of the text in this entry was rewritten from Los Alamos National Laboratory - Dubnium.
Data for the table were obtained from the sources listed on the subject page and Wikipedia:WikiProject Elements but were reformatted and converted into SI units.
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[edit] Evidence??
Text says:
- This relatively high stability compared to the surrounding elements on the periodic table gives evidence that by manipulating the number of neutrons in a nucleus, one can alter the stabilities of such nuclei.
I say: why is that an issue? I thought it was proven since early 20th century. Maybe the text intends towards the island of stability? Rursus 21:22, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Former contradiction (now fixed since anno dazumal)
The first sentence of the history section contains a contradiction:
"Dubnium ... was reportly first synthesized in early 1970 by Albert Ghiorso in Dubna..."
Ghiorso worked in Berkeley. I suspect that this sentence is a compromise between the two competing versions of the history of the discovery:
1) the element was discovered by Ghiorso in Berkeley
2) the element was discovered by Flyorov in Dubna
--Anon
- Fixed. Thanks for the note. --mav
