2019-09-02 Bloomberg Businessweek

Bloomberg Businessweek / SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

THE ELEMENTS

◼ Bohrium

◼ Hassium

◼ Meitnerium

◼ Darmstadtium

◼ Roentgenium

◼ Copernicium

◼ Nihonium

◼ Flerovium

◼ Moscovium

◼ Livermorium

◼ Tennessine

◼ Oganesson

$5.1m Cost to buildBerkeley’s

88-inch cyclotron, 1962

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Mt

Meitnerium

110

Ds

Darmstadtium

111

Rg

Roentgenium

113

Nh

Nihonium

114

Fl

Flerovium

115

Mc

Moscovium

116

Lv

Livermorium

117

Ts

Tennessine

108

Hs

Hassium

112

Cn

Copernicium

118

Og

Oganesson

Making New

Elements

Doesn’t Pay

BySamanthSubramanian With limited ways to commercialize “superheavies,”

the U.S. lab that discovered 15 of them has all but

stopped trying

Photograph by Christie Hemm Klok

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