Element 118 has been created in experiments conducted at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions in Dubna, Russia by a collaboration of researchers from Russia's Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
Element 118, the heaviest element yet found, was produced through collisions that fused together Californium and Calcium atoms. Although element 118 is too unstable to detect directly, the presence of daughter elements resulting from the decay of element 118 gave clues to its fleeting existence.
Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory previously reported the synthesis of element 118 in 1999, and later retracted their results when subsequent experiments failed to confirm their discovery. It was alleged that researcher Victor Ninov fabricated the experimental data that indicated the formation of element 118 atoms.
The (re)discovery was reported in the American Physical Society journal Physical Review C on October 9, 2006.
first comment!
ReplyDeleteand amazing!
Congratulations. I wonder who this one will be named after... The last few were Roentgenium and Darmstadtium, so I wonder if this will be named after the place WHERE they discovered it or WHO discovered it...
ReplyDeleteOr, if the IUPAC wants *direct* proof that it was synthesized. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
can you tell me what the pseudoscience behind this is asap please
DeleteI kind of like Dubnatonium
ReplyDeleteFlerovonium?
ReplyDeleteNotfakethistimeium?
ReplyDeleteunstableandpointelessium
ReplyDeleteWhat about Californication??
ReplyDeleteLOL
Sorry I meant "Californicatium"...
ReplyDeleteMy wife suggests "Schwartzeneggium"
What about... "Element 118" ?
ReplyDeleteNobody tought of that.. uh?
WhatsThePointnium
ReplyDeleteTake the example of Sweden's lovely village of Ytterby, which inspired the names Terbium, Yttrium, Ytterbium, Erbium.
ReplyDeleteDubna doesn't give us much to work with - Dubnium, Ubnium, I guess.
But Livermore: Livermorium, Vermorium, Liverium (Livorium), Morium, Livium, Ermorium, Iverium, Ivermorium, ....
And that's not counting whatever names can be gleaned from the local wineries as well as the nicknames of obscure hardware, computer, and physics toys "out back in the shack i mean warehouse."
Calcifornium?
ReplyDeletecalcalcium ?
ReplyDeleteI'm going to go with "Ununoctium" for now...
ReplyDeleteyeah what's to gain by creating a fleeting atom?
ReplyDeleteIts wonderful to see the slashdot crowd spreading their charming wit to other sites on the web.
ReplyDeleteUnobtainium
ReplyDeleteSince it's so short lived, how about "Fleetium"?
ReplyDeleteDontBlinkium :)
ReplyDeleteninefourfivefiveohium?
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I honestly don't understand the use of creating heavier elements. Each and every element that is heavier than the next is also more unstable the next. Hydrogen is then obviously the most stable.
ReplyDeleteThe reason is quite simple. As you pack on the protons and neutrons the nuclear forces begin to dwindle significantly. With elements such as 118, they last only a microsecond before gravity and the other forces tear the atom apart.
I honestly don't understand the use of creating heavier elements. Each and every element that is heavier than the next is also more unstable the next. Hydrogen is then obviously the most stable.
ReplyDeleteThe reason is quite simple. As you pack on the protons and neutrons the nuclear forces begin to dwindle significantly. With elements such as 118, they last only a microsecond before gravity and the other forces tear the atom apart.
If you're thinking we can make use of this with new steel components that will resist thousands and thousands of degrees of heat or something, it isn't going to happen :(. The most useful elements, and they still are, are well under atomic weights of 100.
Actually, Hydrogen isn't the most stable. That honour belongs to iron (Fe-56).
ReplyDeleteElements on either side tend towards iron; thus we can obtain energy from Hydrogen fusion, or Uranium fission. However, the heavier (>118) elements may have "islands of stability", so some of them may be unexpectedly long-lived.
Actually, the real race is on to create element 114. There is a theory that it has a balance of protons and neutrons needed to be within an 'island of stability' that will allow the created element to exist for quite some time.
ReplyDeleteAs it turns out, the internal nuclear structure of an atom is an ordered collection of protons and neutrons, instead of a random jumble.
http://focus.aps.org/story/v4/st8 (Back in 1999)
I've always liked "unobtainium". This would be a good name.
ReplyDeleteElement 114? Stable?
ReplyDeleteNope.
Check here for answers:
http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/text/Uuq/key.html
"The reason is quite simple. As you pack on the protons and neutrons the nuclear forces begin to dwindle significantly. With elements such as 118, they last only a microsecond before gravity and the other forces tear the atom apart."
ReplyDeleteGravity hardly matters on that scale...the force that you're looking for is known as the 'coulombic force' (electromagnetic force). Also, forces don't 'dwindle' when more bodies are introduced...they tend to decrease with an increase in spacing between the bodies involved.
More 'nucleons' or nuclear particles (protons and neutrons) means greater spacing between the outer ones which in turn means less nuclear binding force between those particles to counteract the coulombic force.
Finally, your contention that things that exist ephemerally cannot possibly be of actual human use ignores key human technologies.
Like candles.
Thank goodness we haven't yet succumb to the wisdom that "photons only exist for a fraction of a second, so why make them?"
name it "ghbketamine"
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ReplyDeleteJUMBONIUM!!!
ReplyDelete(cant believe someone else didnt think of that first)
ReplyDeleteRegarding element 114: Computations do suggest that 114 is a "magic" number of nuclear structure, and so elements with this number of protons should be more stable. The key word here is "more" - the half life will probably be much longer than nearby heavy elements, but still very short.
ReplyDeleteYou might be able to make an isotope of element-114 with a very long half life, perhaps even a stable isotope, if the number of neutrons is also a magic number, say 184. The problem is that it's very hard to make a nucleus with a neutron/proton ratio that high. For example, you'd have to collide Californium-255 with something like Sulfur-43, which doesn't exit.
Hardly any information on this. What is the estimated half life? What a lame "article." Need more information.
ReplyDeleteHere is my article "ELEMENT 190 made today in my house."
Wait.. what about this episode of NOVA SCIENCE NOW, about the "Island of Stability"?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3313/02.html
One-eighteenium
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vorilium!
olivine!
triadium!
trillium!
topalime!
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http://www.mineralogicalrecord.com/pdfs/STAR%20TREK%20Article.pdf
...Although element 118 is too unstable to detect directly, the presence of daughter elements resulting from the decay of element 118 gave clues to its fleeting existence.
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WTFium
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ReplyDeleteHow about KillDieEatPuffManium?
ReplyDeleteI agree
ReplyDeleteHow about Hellomitchellium
ReplyDeleteAnd Hello Danium
ReplyDeleteNews just in we've discovered 114
ReplyDeleteI shall call it Itsamiracleium
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A wise man once said:
ReplyDelete"Element number 118 will bring great destruction to the Earth when it is discovered so do not eat it". He also said:
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ReplyDeletei wonder who just said that!!!!
ReplyDeleteWe can't make 114 stable, yet anyway, why the decision to have another? IMHO stable productive whateverisism clearly requires an ingredient you can buy in the grocery - SPAM!
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I'd call it anything but late for dinner.
ReplyDeletebecausewecanium?
ReplyDeletePhotons do not exist for a fraction of a second. They exist for an instant. A literal instant - they are created, travel, and are destroyed simutainously, with no time at all passing between.
ReplyDeleteHence the question used to annoy those who dont know the basics of relativity: How old is the light from a star x light years away?
Time dilation is fun.
I think the Russians should decide what to name it (and they will).
ReplyDeletei suggest uselessium
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ReplyDelete"...Although element 118 is too unstable to detect directly, the presence of daughter elements resulting from the decay of element 118 gave clues to its fleeting existence.
ReplyDeleteI suggest georgebushium"
And i agree
after the post at 5:36 AM I suggest
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I agree
ReplyDeleteIt's probably a conspiracy. Element 118 probably doesn't really exist. :P
ReplyDeleteNovotnium. From the name of my first calculus teacher who didn't understand that normally body language accounts for 85% of communications, except in calculus classes. Speaking English would have probably helped me pass.
ReplyDeletesweet! another element...more joyous chemistry and physics to study eventually!
ReplyDeleteC'mon. We gotta call it Dilithium.
ReplyDeleteHow about Hydrogen Jr. Yeah, I like Hydrogen Jr.
ReplyDeleteincredibly cool, an atom that exists for about0.00000000000000001 of a second and then disappears. i mean isnt it cool, although i think the time used to create these things could be used to make somthin better.
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ReplyDeleteThe half life as posted on various is 30 seconds for one of the isotopes. This is several orders of magnitude longer than many of the nearby elements.
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ReplyDeleteThe higher the atomic number, the more electrons an atom has. The more electrons, the more shells. The more shells, the larger the atomic radius. The larger the atomic radius, the weaker the grip on the outer electrons.
ReplyDeleteThis means that the attraction between the protons in the nucleus and the electrons in the outer orbitals is too weak to keep the electrons in orbit.
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