other superheavy elements. Elements of the island of stability have potentially important military applications, including the development of compact nuclear weapons. The potential everyday applications are vast; the element americium is used in devices such as smoke detectors and spectrometers. See also Bose–Einstein condensate (also known as Superatom) Island of stability Minor actinide Deep geological repository, a place to deposit transuranic waste References Further reading Eric Scerri, A Very Short Introduction to the Periodic Table, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011. The Superheavy Elements Annotated bibliography for the transuranic elements from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues. Transuranium elements Super Heavy Elements network official website (network of the European integrated infrastructure initiative EURONS) Darmstadtium and beyond Christian Schnier, Joachim Feuerborn, Bong-Jun Lee: Traces of transuranium elements in terrestrial minerals? (Online, PDF-Datei, 493 kB) Christian Schnier, Joachim Feuerborn, Bong-Jun Lee: The search for super heavy elements (SHE) in terrestrial minerals using XRF with high energy synchrotron radiation. (Online, PDF-Datei, 446 kB) Nuclear physics Sets of chemical elements