Flerovium

Flerovium, ₀₀Fl

Flerovium
Pronunciation	/fləˈroʊviəm/[1] (flə-ROH-vee-əm) /flɛˈroʊviəm/[2] (flerr-OH-vee-əm)
Mass number	[289] (unconfirmed: 290)
Flerovium in the periodic table
Hydrogen Helium Lithium Beryllium Boron Carbon Nitrogen Oxygen Fluorine Neon Sodium Magnesium Aluminium Silicon Phosphorus Sulfur Chlorine Argon Potassium Calcium Scandium Titanium Vanadium Chromium Manganese Iron Cobalt Nickel Copper Zinc Gallium Germanium Arsenic Selenium Bromine Krypton Rubidium Strontium Yttrium Zirconium Niobium Molybdenum Technetium Ruthenium Rhodium Palladium Silver Cadmium Indium Tin Antimony Tellurium Iodine Xenon Caesium Barium Lanthanum Cerium Praseodymium Neodymium Promethium Samarium Europium Gadolinium Terbium Dysprosium Holmium Erbium Thulium Ytterbium Lutetium Hafnium Tantalum Tungsten Rhenium Osmium Iridium Platinum Gold Mercury (element) Thallium Lead Bismuth Polonium Astatine Radon Francium Radium Actinium Thorium Protactinium Uranium Neptunium Plutonium Americium Curium Berkelium Californium Einsteinium Fermium Mendelevium Nobelium Lawrencium Rutherfordium Dubnium Seaborgium Bohrium Hassium Meitnerium Darmstadtium Roentgenium Copernicium Nihonium Flerovium Moscovium Livermorium Tennessine Oganesson Pb ↑ Fl ↓ (Uho) nihonium ← flerovium → moscovium
Group	group 14 (carbon group)
Period	period 7
Block	p-block
Electron configuration	[Rn] 5f14 6d10 7s2 7p2 (predicted)[3] (predicted)
Electrons per shell	2, 8, 18, 32, 32, 18, 4 (predicted)
Physical properties
Phase at STP	gas (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 vaporization	38 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 radius	empirical: 180 pm (predicted)[3][6]
Covalent radius	171–177 pm (extrapolated)[10]
Other properties
Natural occurrence	synthetic
Crystal structure	​face-centered cubic (fcc) (predicted)[11]
CAS Number	54085-16-4
History
Naming	after Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions (itself named after Georgy Flyorov)[12]
Discovery	Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) (1999)
Isotopes of flerovium v e
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 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 does not exist in nature. It is made from a nuclear reaction between plutonium and calcium. The reaction that happens is a fusion reaction.

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

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]

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.

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

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?]

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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