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544098 
Journal Article 
Welcome to the chemical family 
Biever, C 
2009 
0 
New Scientist
ISSN: 0262-4079 
202 
2713 
10-10 
The article introduces the new chemical element ununbium or element 112. The element was a discovery of a group led by Sigurd Hofmann at the Centre for Heavy Ion Research (GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany. It was unearthed in 1996 when Hofmann's team held that firing a beam of zinc atoms at a piece of lead produces an atom that was embedded in their detector. It is noted that the reported inconsistencies of the decay chains made the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) reject the element's recognition. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.) 
CHEMICAL elements; ATOMS; ZINC; LEAD; INTERNATIONAL Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry; DARMSTADT (Germany); GERMANY