Scientists at Berkeley Lab’s 88-Inch Cyclotron have successfully created superheavy element 116, also known as livermorium.
About Livermorium:
It is part of the “superheavy” category of elements.
These are elements that exist beyond the known elements in the periodic table and are typically very unstable.
It is artificially produced transuranium elementof atomic number 116.
In 2000 scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, announced the production of atoms of livermorium when curium-248 was fused with calcium-48.
It does not occurnaturally in the Earth’s crust.
How Was Element 116 Created?
Researchers used a powerful particle accelerator to smash together titanium-50 atoms.
They needed to produce a highly intense beam of titanium-50 and target it at a thin layer of plutonium to produce livermorium.
Over 22 days, they managed to create two atoms of livermorium, marking a significant achievement.
Significance: The creation of livermorium is an important step because it demonstrates a new method that could be used to create even heavier elements, such as element 120.
The success of this experiment could provide valuable insights into the behavior of atoms at their heaviest.
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