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Roast nickel trioxide until it turns green. You have now created nickel 59, roast it again till it turns red, now you have nickel 60 but with a twist.
OK times up, oxygen will not attack itself, molecules containing itself and allotropes containing the image of itself. Nickel 58 has no allotrope of oxygen
Even easier, once oxygen attacks nickel 58, a thin molecule coats the surface. Oxygen will not attack the molecule because..........?
nav2010, first of all, congrats on your research.
It's an enormous amount of information, and most of it is not understandable (yet) to
Nickel and oxygen and the shelf of instability.
Christophorus 3 Hours Ago