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Wow, fascinating. I had no idea these hypernuclei even existed!

Interesting background read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypernucleus


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3form12/09/2024

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotic_atom this is also a supplementary fun read. I find it interesting that you could come up with many such combinations, and then answer to "could it exist?" becomes "why, yes!" more often than I would expect.

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amai12/10/2024

Unfortunately the lifetime of these hypernuclei is of the order of picoseconds. They will not revolutionize material sciences.

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