Indication for a volatile element 114

Radiochimica Acta

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 133-139

  Eichler, R ^a,b   Aksenov, N V ^c   Albin, Yu V ^c   Belozerov, A V ^c   Bozhikov, G A ^c   Chepigin, V I ^c   Dmitriev, S N ^c   Dressler, R ^a   Gaggeler H W ^a,b   Gorshkov, V A ^c   Henderson, R A ^d   Johnsen, A M ^d   Kenneally, J M ^d   Lebedev, V Ya ^c   Malyshev, O N ^c   Moody, K J ^d   Oganessian, Yu Ts ^c   Petrushkin, O V ^c   Piguet, D ^a   Popeko, A G ^c   Rasmussen, P ^a   Serov, A ^a,b   Shaughnessy, D A ^d   Shishkin, S V ^c   Shutov, A V ^c   Stoyer, M A ^d   Stoyer, N J ^d   Svirikhin, A I ^c   Tereshatov, E E ^c   Vostokin, G K ^c   Wegrzecki, M ^e   Wilk, P A ^d   Wittwer, D ^b   Yeremin, A V ^c   more..

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e Department of Micro and Nanotechnology of Wide Bandgap Semiconductors   (Poland)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Element 114; Thermochromatography; Transactinides

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953248156     PISSN: 00338230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/ract.2010.1705     Document Type: Article

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