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75 Years Ago, Physicists Discovered 'Magic Numbers' of Protons and Neutrons in Stable Atoms

75 Years Ago, Physicists Discovered 'Magic Numbers' of Protons and Neutrons in Stable Atoms

[html]"The word magic is not often used in the context of science. But in the early 1930s, scientists discovered that some atomic nuclei were more stable than others."[/html]

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