Alfredo Galindo-Uribarri and team studied doubly magic tin-132 (IMAGE)

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Alfredo Galindo-Uribarri and team studied doubly magic tin-132

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ORNL’s Alfredo Galindo-Uribarri and team studied doubly magic tin-132 — especially stable because it takes more energy to remove a proton or a neutron than neighboring isotopes need.

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Alonda Hines/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

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