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It's Official: Flerovium and Livermorium

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Names were proposed last year by the teams of scientists discovering the new elements - and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) today officially approved new names for elements 114 (Flerovium) and 116 (Livermorium).

The creation of elements 116 and 114 involved smashing calcium ions (with 20 protons each) into a curium target (96 protons) to create element 116. Element 116 decayed almost immediately into element 114. The scientists also created element 114 separately by replacing curium with a plutonium target (94 protons).

Source: Phys.org
 
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