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Is it possible that in these times, the amount of energy would permit atoms larger than we have observed in nature or been able to create in the lab?
Quite possibly, but we do not need to go back in time. In fact, the early moments after the Big Bang are the least likely time to find very heavy elements, as the primary elements produced initially are ...
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Please do not underestimate the scientists of 19th century. They were as creative, intelligent and perhaps more genuinely dedicated to science than the scientists of the 21st century. Spectroscopy was the tool of the trade to identify and verify that a given substance is not a mixture.
The original reference which established that Didymium was a mixture is ...
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