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While other superheavy elements have half-lives measured in milliseconds, the predicted combination of protons and neutrons could make element 120 much more long-lived.

What is the heaviest element in the universe? Are there infinitely many elements? Where and how could superheavy elements be created naturally?

When the rare superheavy element does form, it is separated from the rest of the particle debris by magnets in the Berkeley Gas-filled Separator (BGS).

Element 120 would be part of the so-called island of stability, a class of superheavy elements that would survive longer than the superheavy elements discovered so far.

Up to that time, all the discovered superheavy elements are radioactive and unstable; they do not exist for longer than a few microseconds in some cases because of radioactive decay.

Studying the Periodic Table of Elements and the nuclear landscape in the superheavy region will generate new ideas and methods that will impact nuclear and atomic physics, astrophysics, and chemistry.

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