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PATNA: Bihar Police arrested a three-member smuggling gang Friday and confiscated from them 50gm of a radioactive substance ...

The material, which police said was the element Californium, was found when a car was searched in the Pursaklar suburb of the city, NTV news channel reported (in Turkish). Four people in the car ...

The heaviest practical target in these experiments is californium-249, which has 98 protons. To create element 120, ...

MR. N. J. PETCH has found that the α-form of tungsten occurs in sputtered films and deposits, whereas the only previously reported occurrence was in specimens prepared by electrolytic extraction.

Production of monoenergetic neutrons between 0.1 and 23 MeV: Neutron energies and cross-sections; 1–4. The neutron spectrum of spontaneous fission of californium-252; 1–5. Decay data for radionuclides ...

In response to recommendations by the 1971 Geneva Conference and in compliance with a resolution by the IAEA General Conference to intensify efforts to assist developing countries in planning their ...

That opportunity came when the Berkeley radiochemists established their priority to element 106. They had made it back in 1974 by firing oxygen ions at element 98, californium. But a Russian team ...

When not working, Scott Abston enjoys spending time at home with his dog, Cheech. Credit: Scott Abston/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of ...

The second line consisted of Bk for this week's element 97 or the University at which Seaborg worked. The third line was Cf for element 98, or californium, or the state in which the university stands.