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Magic Materials

The Infinite Monkey Cage

CHAPTER

The Future of Materials

Could we go to another planet and find elements that have 150 protons in their nucleus? Would that be stable? Could we make one on Earth? What kind of properties would it have? And these are really exciting ideas. Mostly, though, our experience with those heavy elements is that they immediately fall apart. But there are people who posit that there are some islands of stability in the periodic table that are further away than we've ever experienced. We just haven't worked out how to make them and how to make that future come into existence.

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