Equation 49 · Part 2 · The Valley of Stability Is a Fitness Landscape
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What this part means
The expressions on both sides represent the same quantity under the stated assumptions.
Its job in the formula
The equals sign connects the complete expression on the left with the complete expression on the right. Both sides must have compatible units.
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The passage around this formula
Further out still, past the drip lines entirely in the sense of ordinary particle stability, theoretical models predict a second region of enhanced binding among the superheavy elements — the island of stability — centered on a closed neutron shell now generally predicted near N=184 , well beyond any neutron number reached by nuclei observed to date. As Yuri Oganessian, who led much of the experimental program that produced the heaviest known elements, and Krzysztof Rykaczewski put it in a 2015 review, current experiments reach only as far as N=177 , and “modern theoretical approaches, supported by new experimental data, also point to the existence of long-lived nuclei at and around the…
Learn the underlying idea
An equals sign says that the expression on its left and the expression on its right have the same value under the stated definitions and assumptions.
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
- [8] A beachhead on the island of stability ↗
- [14] IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 ↗
- [7] Synthesis of the isotopes of elements 118 and 116 in the 249Cf and 245Cm+48Ca fusion reactions ↗
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