Physicists Create New Isotope of Magnesium chemistry physics science
Magnesium-18. Image credit: S.M. Wang / Fudan University & Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University.
To make magnesium-18, which is lighter by one neutron, Dr. Kyle Brown from the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University and colleagues started with a stable isotope of magnesium, magnesium-24.accelerated a beam of magnesium-24 nuclei to about half the speed of light and sent that beam barreling into a target, which is a metal foil made from the element beryllium. And that was just the first step.“But from that soup, we can select out the isotope we want.
That’s such a short time that magnesium-18 doesn’t cloak itself with electrons to become a full-fledged atom before falling apart. It exists only as a naked nucleus.
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