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Letter: Zero plus

Published 16 November 2002

From Peter Borrell

As the compilers of the Chart of the Nuclides long ago recognised, the neutron is “element zero”. If your suggested “element” containing four neutrons exists (26 October, p 30), it will simply be a heavy isotope of “element zero”.

Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, UK

Issue no. 2369 published 16 November 2002

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