Just the thing to send them home happy for Christmas – German scientists have discovered the 111th element barely a month after the same team found Element 110, the Ministry of Education & Science said in Bonn: the new element, which is heavier than all the others and is a chemical relative of copper, silver and gold, was discovered at the Society for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt; they are all off now to try to dream up a name for the two new elements – the 110th decays after four thousandths of a second; It is difficult to explain the significance of this discovery to a layman, said a spokesman, But it is important.
