
What's the heaviest stable element?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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The Number of Protons and the Number of Neutrons
It seems that nature likes for the number of protons and trons to be similar. But they're not exactly equal, right? For example, you can have more neutrons than protons in lead. So we don't quite understand it, but it tends to prefer having more neutrons thanprotons. It might be that these magic numbers just keep increasing,. And so find this island of stability.
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