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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 December 2024. "Element 115" redirects here. For fictional and conspiracy references to element 115, see Materials science in science fiction. Chemical element with atomic number 115 (Mc) Moscovium, 115 Mc Moscovium Pronunciation / m ɒ ˈ s k oʊ v i ə m / (mos- SKOH -vee-əm) Mass number (data not ...
moscovium, Mc, named after Moscow Oblast, where the element was discovered (2004). 116. livermorium, Lv, named after Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a collaborator with JINR in the discovery (2000). 117. tennessine, Ts, after Tennessee, where the berkelium target needed for the synthesis of the element was manufactured (2010). 118.
The discovery group intended to propose the name ghiorsium for element 118, but eventually the data were found to have been tampered and in 2002 the claims were withdrawn. Ghiorso's lifetime output comprised about 170 technical papers, most published in The Physical Review.
Moscovium (115 Mc) is a synthetic element, and thus a standard atomic weight cannot be given. Like all synthetic elements, it has no known stable isotopes. The first isotope to be synthesized was 288 Mc in 2004. There are five known radioisotopes from 286 Mc to 290 Mc. The longest-lived isotope is 290 Mc with a half-life of 0.65 seconds.
Einsteinium and fermium were discovered by a team of scientists led by Albert Ghiorso in 1952 while studying the composition of radioactive debris from the detonation of the first hydrogen bomb. [19] The isotopes synthesized were einsteinium-253, with a half-life of 20.5 days, and fermium-255 , with a half-life of about 20 hours.
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The definition by the IUPAC/IUPAP Joint Working Party (JWP) states that a chemical element can only be recognized as discovered if a nucleus of it has not decayed within 10 −14 seconds. This value was chosen as an estimate of how long it takes a nucleus to acquire electrons and thus display its chemical properties. [21] [d]
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