Japanese cyclotron has managed to create Sodium-39

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25 pointslatchkey4 comments

They bombarded a target with half a billion billion high energy nuclei, and detected 9 Na³⁹ atoms.

This has no practical purpose, but will improve mathematical models of the nucleus, and understanding of neutron star evolution.

³⁹Na

"This was thought impossible"

By who?

Me, for one