Using biotech as the ‘discovery tool’ for IT, power and sensors

• Book ID: 104366275
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 45 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0961-1290
• DOI: 10.1016/s0961-1290(03)00968-2

✦ Synopsis

Element 110 nameday

Chemical element 110, discovered in 1994, is being named 'darmstadtium', and given the chemical symbol Ds, honouring the Laboratory for Heavy Ion Research (GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany, where the substance was first made. Natural elements run out at uranium 92. Several more have been made artificially since 1939, when researchers at the University of California at Berkeley bombarded uranium with a beam of neutrons to create element 93, neptunium. As with many science subjects, element-making soon became a race between a Soviet group at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna and a team spanning the University of California and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Discoverers of a new element generally win the right to name it, although new names have to receive International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry approval.