The Smelliest Element - Livermorium - Periodic Table of Videos
We met Professor Mark Stoyer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, who played a key role in the discovery and naming of element 116. More with ...
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- So Livermorium was first made in around 2000. It was made in calcium-48 plus curium-248 reaction. We've since made 4 different isotopes of Livermorium. They all have tens of milliseconds half-lives, so they're pretty short-lived. So unfortunately I can't show you a bottle. It was a very interesting process to name these elements when we got permission to name 114 and 116-were naming two elements at once. We of course began discussions with our Russian colleagues and reached a concensus on these names, Flerovium for 114 and Livermorium for 116. We chose Livermorium because we could not discover enough elements to name one after everybody who was important in these kinds of experiments. There was many, many scientists here at Livermore. Some have retired, even passed away, who were i...
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- So Livermorium was first made in around 2000. It was made in calcium-48 plus curium-248 reaction. We've since made 4 different isotopes of Livermorium. They all have tens of milliseconds half-lives, so they're pretty short-lived. So unfortunately I can't show you a bottle. It was a very interesting process to name these elements when we got permission to name 114 and 116-were naming two elements at once. We of course began discussions with our Russian colleagues and reached a concensus on these names, Flerovium for 114 and Livermorium for 116. We chose Livermorium because we could not discover enough elements to name one after everybody who was important in these kinds of experiments. There was many, many scientists here at Livermore. Some have retired, even passed away, who were i...
