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element 118

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element 118: see ununoctium ununoctium (y
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Before element 118 is added to the periodic table and the team is given credit for its creation, scientists at other laboratories will have to reproduce the results.
Worse, a reanalysis of the original data showed no evidence of either element 118 or its decay product, element 116.
What's more, the signs of possible success are so fleeting and ambiguous that researchers sometimes fool themselves, as happened recently in efforts to forge element 118 (SN: 8/4/01, p.
 
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