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Public comment sought on new element names
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) opened a public comment period Wednesday for the recommended names of elements 115, 117 and 118.Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia (JINR), were credited late last year for discovering elements 115 and 118. LLNL, JINR, Oak Ridge National…
Ask this chemist about creating new elements
Ever wonder how scientists create new elements, add them to the periodic table or why they’re even interested in super heavy elements?Dawn Shaughnessy, Lawrence Livermore’s principal investigator for the Heavy Element Group, will field questions from the public on the popular social media site Reddit from 10 a.m. to noon PST on Friday, Jan. 8.Shaughnessy is part of an…
Lawrence Livermore credited with discovery of elements 115, 117 and 118
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has confirmed that Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists and international collaborators have officially discovered elements 115, 117 and 118.The announcement means those three elements are one step closer to being named.Lawrence Livermore teamed with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna…
Lab scientists discover five new nuclei
Lawrence Livermore scientists, in conjunction with international researchers, have discovered five new atomic nuclei to be added the chart of nuclides.The study, conducted this fall, focuses on developing new methods of synthesis for super heavy elements. The newly discovered, exotic nuclei are one isotope each of heavy elements berkelium, neptunium and uranium and two…
Element 117, discovered by Laboratory, one step closer to being named
Element 117, first discovered by Lawrence Livermor escientists and international collaborators in 2010, is one step closer to being named.The existence of element 117 and its decay chain to elements 115 and 113 have been confirmed by a second international team led by scientists at GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, an accelerator laboratory located in Darmstadt,…
Livermorium goes down in the history books
Laboratory employees and city officials celebrated the discovery of the two heaviest elements on the periodic table -- 114, Flerovium, and 116, Livermorium -- during a daylong celebration Monday. The day started with a colloquium hosted by the Laboratory, titled "Elemental Science: Livermorium and the Periodic Table," with distinguished lecturers in the Bldg. 123…
Livermorium and Flerovium join the periodic table of elements
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) today officially approved new names for elements 114 and 116, the latest heavy elements to be added to the periodic table. Scientists of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)-Dubna collaboration proposed the names as Flerovium for element 114, with the symbol Fl, and Livermorium for element 116, with…
Livermore and Russian scientists propose new names for elements 114 and 116
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) today recommended new proposed names for elements 114 and 116, the latest heavy elements to be added to the periodic table. Scientists of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)-Dubna collaboration proposed the names as Flerovium for element 114 and Livermorium for element 116. In June 2011, the IUPAC…
Setting sail toward the island of stability
Researchers searching for the elusive "island of stability" may have a better map.With the recent discovery of six new variations of the superheavy elements on the bottom rung of the periodic table, scientists are closer to creating elements that are expected to last long enough for in-depth study.LLNL's Darren Bleuel and Mathis Wiedeking are part of the 20-member team…
