Ununtrium

Ununtrium (pronounced /juːˈnʌntriəm/), or eka-thallium, is the temporary name of a synthetic element in the periodic table that has the temporary symbol Uut and has the atomic number 113. It comes from the alpha decay (release of a helium nucleus) of ununpentium. Following periodic trends it is expected to be a soft, silvery highly reactive metal, rather like sodium.

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History

On February 1, 2004, the discovery of ununtrium and ununpentium were reported by a team composed of Russian scientists at Dubna (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research), and American scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

On September 28, 2004, a team of Japanese scientists at RIKEN declared that they succeeded in synthesizing the element.^[1][2]

In May 2006, at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, the synthesis of this element was confirmed by another method (the chemical identifying on final products of decay of element).

Name

Ununtrium is a temporary IUPAC systematic element name. Scientists from Japan proposed for the element the name japonium (symbol Jp) or rikenium (Rk) after RIKEN.^[3]

See also

• Isotopes of ununtrium
• Island of stability

References

1. ^ Morita et al, Experiment on the Synthesis of Element 113 in the Reaction ²⁰⁹Bi(⁷⁰Zn, n)²⁷⁸113, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn., Vol. 73, No.10. Also press release in Japanese
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