| Atomic Number: | 118 | |
| Atomic Symbol: | Uuo | |
| Atomic Weight: | ? | |
| Electron Configuration: | ? |
officially unnamed, officially unfound
In 1999, the team at Lawrence Berkley Labs published
a paper in the journal Physical Review Papers proclaiming their discovery
of element 118. The scientific community exploded, hoping that the decay time of
118 (eka-radon) would longer than that of 114. Element 116 was also synthesized
during this reaction, which used cold fusion to fuse 108Pb and 86Kr atoms
together.
However, this experiment has
NOT been
repeated successfully at other laboratories. Lawrence Berkley Labs officially
retracted their paper in 2001, saying that they had actually misinterpreted
their data. Despite this, efforts to produce element 118 have not halted, and
element 118 may yet still be synthesized.
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