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Contains new concepts and tells the story of the author's quest to discover chemical elements never before known to man.
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The Landscape. Elements Created in Stars. Synthetic Elements. Elements made with Light Ion Beams form 'Small' Cyclotrons. Hot Fusion and Controversial Discoveries - Elements 102 to 106 6. Cold Fusion and 'Big' Cyclotrons. The Dream - Uranium Beams. Models, Cross-section and Fusion. New Techniques - Kinematic Separators and Position-Sensitive Detectors. New Elements and other Stories - from Bohrium to Meitnerium. The Year 1998 - a New Beginning. Three more Elements - 110, 111 and 112. Names mean more than Numbers. Attack on the Domain of Superheavies - Elements 114, 116 and 118. Epilogue.
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