Squeezing Heavy Elements Between Diamonds Might Help Recycle Nuclear Waste

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Squeezing Heavy Elements Between Diamonds Might Help Recycle Nuclear Waste
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Squeezing heavier elements between diamonds might open doors for recycling nuclear waste. 🤔

RELATED: NEAR INFINITE POWER SOURCES COULD DERIVE FROM NUCLEAR WASTEThe international research team behind the discovery showed how curium — element 96 in the periodic table and one of the last ones physically visible to human eyes — reacts to high pressure created when it's squeezed between two diamonds.

"This was not anticipated because the chemistry of curium makes it resistant to these types of changes," said Albrecht-Schmitt, Gregory R. Choppin Professor of Chemistry at Florida State University."In short, it is quite inert.

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