Thetwo men also said that inviting scientists out of the country for further questioning without Iraq's consent, as the draft resolution suggests, would prove difficult.
The announcements by the CERN researchers come two days after scientists in Illinois said they had crept closer to proving the existence of the Higgs boson but had been unable to reach a definitive conclusion.
Scientists also admitted in court that forensic tests which were originally said to confirm two of the six had been handling explosives could have produced the same results from handling cigarettes.
Although the general public has become aware of specialty metals in the past few years, material scientists who have been working with these metals for about two decades have rarely thought about the supply issues, she said.