Artificial Element to Officially Enter Periodic Table
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German researchers in Berlin stated on Thursday that an artificially-produced superheavy element will soon be officially included in the periodic table of elements, Reuters News Agency reports.
The element has the atomic number 112 and is temporarily known as Ununbium, which is Latin for the number 112. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has asked the staff of the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research, where the substance was first created, to give the element an official name.
Ununbium is created with the aid of a 120-meter-long particle accelerator. Researchers fire zinc atoms through the accelerator into a mass of lead. The force of the collision fuses the nuclei of the two substances, combining their atomic weights.
Researchers first created Ununbium during tests in 1996, but the substance’s existence could not be immediately confirmed. Scientists hope that it will help them understand the reactions involved in nuclear power plants and atomic bombs.
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