Meanings of element 118 in English

RUSSIA: US and Russian researchers say they have created element 118, the heaviest known element.

When they looked back at the original data files for element 118, they noticed something sickening: there was no data.

Except... when the Russians and Germans tried to confirm the results by rerunning the experiments, they couldn't find element 118, just krypton and lead.

Best of all, element 118 decayed immediately, spitting out an alpha particle and becoming element 116, which had never been seen either.

No proof of element 118 existed until a late round of data analysis, when "hits" suddenly materialized from chaotic 1s and 0s.