All superheavy elements articles
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ResearchSuperheavy element flerovium is likely to be a liquid at room temperature
Element 114 predicted to be a volatile semiconductor with a melting point around 10°C
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Research
Berkelium complex opens door for future nuclear recycling
Complex is only the sixth ever created
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Half the world’s supply of element 99 used to reveal its chemical secrets
Scientists explore einsteinium’s unusual chemistry using less than 200 nanograms of the precious and highly radioactive material
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Copernicium behaves like a volatile noble liquid, simulations suggest
Relativity plays a part in making element 112 very different to its counterparts in group 12
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Feature
Atom-by-atom experiments at the edge of the periodic table
Only a few atoms of oganesson have ever been made – and they all vanished in less time than it took you to read this
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Research
Superheavy oganesson is a semiconductor
The heaviest element known continues to defy the rules of the periodic table
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Podcast
Book Club – Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table
Kit Chapman explores the strange, complex and downright confusing world of superheavy elements
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Review
Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table
Kit Chapman has been on a journey around the world to discover how new elements are made
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Opinion
The criteria for discovering a new element
Why the rules are changing in the search for superheavies
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Opinion
'It blows my mind I get to use these facilities'
Element discoverer Dawn Shaughnessy on big science, future generations and Star Wars
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Feature
What is an element?
Our understanding of what an element is has evolved over the years, but it’s still a tricky concept to nail down. Philip Ball investigates
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Research
Masses of superheavy elements nihonium and moscovium measured
First direct measurement made by US team
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News
Rules for element discovery get superheavy revamp
Chemistry and physics federations also define what counts as a ‘beyond superheavy element’
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Research
Laser spectroscopy offers first glimpse at nobelium nuclei
Adapted technique offers experimental insights to theorists studying superheavy elements
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73 new exotic nuclei discovered at Japanese institute
Hunt for remaining 4000 predicted nuclides goes on but new technology is needed to find them all
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Molecular cages could uncover element 114’s true chemical nature
Flerovium-capturing sulfur cages could finally reveal where in the periodic table the superheavy element belongs
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Immense oganesson projected to have no electron shells
Theory predicts that element 118 would be surrounded by a smear of electrons
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Research
Hunt for element 119 to begin
Japan and the US team up to start the next row of the periodic table
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Opinion
Why using initials devalues women in science
Are we masking role models by our choice of abbreviation?
