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Letter: For the record

Published 1 July 2009

• The experimental reruns involved in the discovery of element 112 occurred three years earlier than we stated, in 2000 (20 June, p 10). Also, we confused celsius with kelvin when giving its boiling point. It is in fact around 80 °C not “around 300 °C” as we said.

Issue no. 2715 published 4 July 2009

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