As of the Time Our Textbook Went to Press, 118

question 26

Multiple Choice

As of the time our textbook went to press, 118 different elements had been discovered. All of the ones with atomic number over 92 have been made in physics laboratories. When element 119 (one that has not yet been identified) is found, provided it is like the other artificially made elements, it will:

• A) have only protons, no neutrons at all
• B) soon be used in industry to make new kinds of plastics
• C) have one of the smallest nuclei known
• D) only remain stable for an extremely small fraction of a second
• E) eventually be found in the Sun (with very high quality spectrometers)

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