Livermorium

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Livermorium is a chemical element, it is one of the Transactinoiden, has the atomic number 116 and the element symbol Lv. The name derives from the town of Livermore from, in one institution involved in the discovery is located, and was adopted by IUPAC on 30 May 2012. This name was proposed on December 1, 2011. To date the item was Ununhexium.

History

Livermorium was the first time in July 2000 at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna (Russia) by scientists at the Institute and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory by fusing a curium and a calcium atomic nucleus produced.

The discovery was confirmed in June 2011 by the IUPAC, thus this element officially finds its way into the periodic table of elements.

Formation

Livermorium, as well as all other transactinides are produced by nuclear reactions. The reaction with the product Livermorium consists of the fusion of the elements 20 ( calcium) and 96 ( Curium ). Calcium ions are formed into a beam, and fired at a target curium. In this case, the atom is created 116 What is a disadvantage of this still only possible process for the production of transactinide is that only very small amounts of the substance can be synthesized. This is very difficult to explore the element in combination with the very short half -life of Livermorium.