• Question: Do you think there are any more elements to be discovered?

    Asked by txbex to Cathal, Daphne, Darren, Jon, Katherine on 15 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by harryj.
    • Photo: Katherine Haxton

      Katherine Haxton answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      Yes definitely, but as one of my colleagues just suggested, we’re not sure if we’re discovering them (i.e.finding them) or making them. Most elements that have been ‘discovered’ recently have been made by scientists in laboratories by banging particles together. We’ve never found them in nature, mainly because they only exist for a tiny length of time, not even long enough to look at their chemistry 🙁

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