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Flerovium

chemical element with atomic number 114

Flerovium is a synthetic chemical element also known as eka-lead. It has the symbol Fl and has the atomic number 114. It is a radioactive superheavy element.

Flerovium, 00Fl
Flerovium
Pronunciation
Mass number[289] (unconfirmed: 290)
Flerovium in the periodic table
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Pb
↑
Fl
↓
(Uho)
nihonium ← flerovium → moscovium
Groupgroup 14 (carbon group)
Periodperiod 7
Block  p-block
Electron configuration[Rn] 5f14 6d10 7s2 7p2 (predicted)[3] (predicted)
Electrons per shell2, 8, 18, 32, 32, 18, 4 (predicted)
Physical properties
Phase at STPgas (predicted)[3]
Boiling point~ 210 K ​(~ −60 °C, ​~ −80 °F) [4][5]
Density when liquid (at m.p.)14 g/cm3 (predicted)[6]
Heat of vaporization38 kJ/mol (predicted)[6]
Atomic properties
Oxidation states(0), (+1), (+2), (+4), (+6) (predicted)[3][7][8]
Ionization energies
  • 1st: 832.2 kJ/mol (predicted)[9]
  • 2nd: 1600 kJ/mol (predicted)[6]
  • 3rd: 3370 kJ/mol (predicted)[6]
  • (more)
Atomic radiusempirical: 180 pm (predicted)[3][6]
Covalent radius171–177 pm (extrapolated)[10]
Other properties
Natural occurrencesynthetic
Crystal structure ​face-centered cubic (fcc)
Face-centred cubic crystal structure for flerovium

(predicted)[11]
CAS Number54085-16-4
History
Namingafter Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions (itself named after Georgy Flyorov)[12]
DiscoveryJoint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) (1999)
Isotopes of flerovium
Main isotopes Decay
abun­dance half-life (t1/2) mode pro­duct
284Fl synth 2.5 ms[13][14] SF –
285Fl synth 100 ms[15] α 281Cn
286Fl synth 105 ms[16] α55% 282Cn
SF45% –
287Fl synth 360 ms[16] α 283Cn
ε?[17] 287Nh
288Fl synth 660 ms α 284Cn
289Fl synth 1.9 s α 285Cn
290Fl synth 19 s?[18][19] EC 290Nh
α 286Cn
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Flerovium does not exist in nature. It is made from a nuclear reaction between plutonium and calcium. The reaction that happens is a fusion reaction.

Uses

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It currently has no use at the moment as it is being researched right now.

History

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The discovery of Flerovium in December 1998 was reported in January 1999 by scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia.[21] The same team of scientists made another isotope of Fl three months later[22] and made it again in 2004 and 2006.

In 2004 in the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research checked it was made by another method. They found the final products of radioactive decay.

After its discovery, the "new" element was named ununquadium. The named changed on May 30th, 2012 to "flerovium". It was named for the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, which was named for Russian physicist Georgy Flyorov. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry named it so.[23]

Chemical properties

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Not enough Flerovium has been made to measure its physical or chemical properties. It is thought that it would be a soft, dense metal that changes colour in air. It may have a low melting point of about 200 °C.

Making it

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Flerovium can be made by bombarding a plutonium-244 target with calcium-48 as a beam of ions.

298Fl - An undiscovered neutron-rich nucleus

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According to the nuclear shell model, the undiscovered neutron-rich nucleus 298Fl may be a doubly magic nucleus, atop the shell closure at N=184.[24] It is predicted that this atom, amid the closed nuclear shells, expected to have longer half-lives for alpha decay and spontaneous fission. However using the fusion-evaporation method to produce this nuclide is impractical, since more neutron-rich starting materials with low proton numbers are unstable due to beta decay.

Estimates for half-lives for this atom range from a few minutes to several billion years. [source?]

References

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  1. ↑ Flerovium and Livermorium. The Periodic Table of Videos. University of Nottingham. December 2, 2011. Retrieved June 4, 2012.
  2. ↑ "flerovium". Lexico UK English Dictionary UK English Dictionary UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 2021-02-05.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Hoffman, Darleane C.; Lee, Diana M.; Pershina, Valeria (2006). "Transactinides and the future elements". In Morss; Edelstein, Norman M.; Fuger, Jean (eds.). The Chemistry of the Actinide and Transactinide Elements (3rd ed.). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer Science+Business Media. ISBN 978-1-4020-3555-5.
  4. ↑ Oganessian, Yu. Ts. (27 January 2017). "Discovering Superheavy Elements". Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  5. ↑ Seaborg, G. T. "Transuranium element". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2010-03-16.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Fricke, Burkhard (1975). "Superheavy elements: a prediction of their chemical and physical properties". Recent Impact of Physics on Inorganic Chemistry. Structure and Bonding. 21: 89–144. doi:10.1007/BFb0116498. ISBN 978-3-540-07109-9. Retrieved 4 October 2013.
  7. ↑ Fricke, Burkhard (1975). "Superheavy elements: a prediction of their chemical and physical properties". Recent Impact of Physics on Inorganic Chemistry. Structure and Bonding. 21: 89–144. doi:10.1007/BFb0116498. ISBN 978-3-540-07109-9. Retrieved 4 October 2013.
  8. ↑ Schwerdtfeger, Peter; Seth, Michael (2002). "Relativistic Quantum Chemistry of the Superheavy Elements. Closed-Shell Element 114 as a Case Study" (PDF). Journal of Nuclear and Radiochemical Sciences. 3 (1): 133–136. doi:10.14494/jnrs2000.3.133. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  9. ↑ Pershina, Valeria (30 November 2013). "Theoretical Chemistry of the Heaviest Elements". In Schädel, Matthias; Shaughnessy, Dawn (eds.). The Chemistry of Superheavy Elements (2nd ed.). Springer Science & Business Media. p. 154. ISBN 9783642374661.
  10. ↑ Bonchev, Danail; Kamenska, Verginia (1981). "Predicting the Properties of the 113–120 Transactinide Elements". Journal of Physical Chemistry. 85 (9). American Chemical Society: 1177–1186. doi:10.1021/j150609a021.
  11. ↑ Maiz Hadj Ahmed, H.; Zaoui, A.; Ferhat, M. (2017). "Revisiting the ground state phase stability of super-heavy element Flerovium". Cogent Physics. 4 (1). Bibcode:2017CogPh...4m8045M. doi:10.1080/23311940.2017.1380454. S2CID 125920084. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
  12. ↑ "Element 114 is Named Flerovium and Element 116 is Named Livermorium" (Press release). IUPAC. 30 May 2012. Archived from the original on 9 September 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  13. ↑ Utyonkov, V.K.; et al. (2015). Synthesis of superheavy nuclei at limits of stability: 239,240Pu + 48Ca and 249–251Cf + 48Ca reactions (PDF). Super Heavy Nuclei International Symposium, Texas A & M University, College Station TX, USA, March 31 – April 02, 2015.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Utyonkov, V. K.; Brewer, N. T.; Oganessian, Yu. Ts.; Rykaczewski, K. P.; et al. (15 September 2015). "Experiments on the synthesis of superheavy nuclei 284Fl and 285Fl in the 239,240Pu + 48Ca reactions". Physical Review C. 92 (3): 034609. Bibcode:2015PhRvC..92c4609U. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.92.034609. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "284Fl" defined multiple times with different content
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Utyonkov, V. K.; Brewer, N. T.; Oganessian, Yu. Ts.; Rykaczewski, K. P.; et al. (30 January 2018). "Neutron-deficient superheavy nuclei obtained in the 240Pu+48Ca reaction". Physical Review C. 97 (14320): 1–10. Bibcode:2018PhRvC..97a4320U. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.97.014320. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "PuCa2017" defined multiple times with different content
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Oganessian, Yu. Ts.; Utyonkov, V. K.; Ibadullayev, D.; et al. (2022). "Investigation of 48Ca-induced reactions with 242Pu and 238U targets at the JINR Superheavy Element Factory". Physical Review C. 106 (024612). doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.106.024612.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Hofmann, S.; Heinz, S.; Mann, R.; Maurer, J.; et al. (2016). "Remarks on the Fission Barriers of SHN and Search for Element 120". In Peninozhkevich, Yu. E.; Sobolev, Yu. G. (eds.). Exotic Nuclei: EXON-2016 Proceedings of the International Symposium on Exotic Nuclei. Exotic Nuclei. pp. 155–164. ISBN 9789813226555. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "EXON" defined multiple times with different content
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Hofmann, S.; Heinz, S.; Mann, R.; Maurer, J.; et al. (2016). "Review of even element super-heavy nuclei and search for element 120". The European Physics Journal A. 2016 (52). Bibcode:2016EPJA...52..180H. doi:10.1140/epja/i2016-16180-4. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Hofmann2016" defined multiple times with different content
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Kaji, Daiya; Morita, Kosuke; Morimoto, Kouji; Haba, Hiromitsu; et al. (2017). "Study of the Reaction 48Ca + 248Cm → 296Lv* at RIKEN-GARIS". Journal of the Physical Society of Japan. 86: 034201-1–7. Bibcode:2017JPSJ...86c4201K. doi:10.7566/JPSJ.86.034201. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Kaji" defined multiple times with different content
  20. ↑ Utyonkov, V.K. | display-authors = etal (2015) Synthesis of superheavy nuclei at limits of stability: 239,240Pu + 48Ca and 249–251Cf + 48Ca reactions. Super Heavy Nuclei International Symposium, Texas A & M University, College Station TX, USA, March 31 – April 02, 2015
  21. ↑ Oganessian, Yu. Ts.; et al. (October 1999). "Synthesis of Superheavy Nuclei in the 48Ca + 244Pu Reaction". Physical Review Letters. 83 (16): 3154–3157. Bibcode:1999PhRvL..83.3154O. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.3154.
  22. ↑ Oganessian; et al. (July 1999). "Synthesis of nuclei of the superheavy element 114 in reactions induced by 48Ca". Nature. 400 (6741): 242–245. Bibcode:1999Natur.400..242O. doi:10.1038/22281. S2CID 4399615.
  23. ↑ "Element 114 is Named Flerovium and Element 116 is Named Livermorium". Archived from the original on 2012-09-09. Retrieved 2012-06-07.
  24. ↑ Karpov, A. V.; Zagrebaev, V. I.; Palenzuela, Y. M.; et al. (2012). "Decay properties and stability of the heaviest elements" (PDF). International Journal of Modern Physics E. 21 (2): 1250013-1–1250013-20. Bibcode:2012IJMPE..2150013K. doi:10.1142/S0218301312500139.

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