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WalleStark17 karma

I'm still really young (17), having just finished my Chemistry A-Level course and heading into my freshman year at uni next fall. I'm super interested in nuclear chemistry, but as an Egyptian, I'm not sure if that's a field that I'll be able to work in if I stay in Egypt and I'm not sure if I'm gonna be able to leave. Which is why I opted to study Chemical Engineering rather than Pharmacy or Chemistry, to allow myself a more variety of choices. If I am able to leave the country to travel outside, can I work in nuclear chemistry with a Chemical Engineering degree? Or is is a more industrial and less scientific degree? How many people have you encountered with this degree?

WalleStark15 karma

Can you explain, relatively simply, why the Island of Stability is expected to be at the proton number 120? What makes it so distinct? Is it the proton number, the nucleon number, their arrangement? Nothing?