Ununpentium
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Ununpentium is a chemical element. It is also named eka-bismuth. It has the symbol Uup. It has the atomic number 115. It is a superheavy element.
Ununpentium does not exist in nature. It has to be made. It is a synthetic element. It is made from a nuclear reaction between americium and calcium. The reaction that happens is a fusion reaction.
Ununpentium is in the center of the theoretical island of stability. No stable isotopes of ununpentium have yet been found. Models predict that the stable isotope of ununpentium should have 184 neutrons. The stable isotope with 184 neutrons is 299Uup. The isotope that has been made has only 173 neutrons (288Uup).
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[edit] History
On February 2 2004 a report that ununpentium and ununtrium were made was written in a journal named Physical Review C. The report was written by a team of Russian scientists at Dubna University's Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and American scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.[1],[2]
These people reported that they bombarded a different chemical element named americium with the element calcium to make four atoms of ununpentium.
Scientists of Japan also report that they have made Ununpentium.
In May 2006 at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research this element was made by another method and what the final products from radioactive decay were was found by chemical analysis.
[edit] Name
Ununpentium is a temporary IUPAC systematic element name.
[edit] Chemical properties
Not enough ununpentium has beeen made to measure its physical or chemical properties. It is thought that it would be a hard metal. It may have a low melting point of about 250 °C. It may be slightly colored.
Ununpentium is in the same group as bismuth but its chemical properties will be different. The chemistry of ununpentium will be very influenced by special relativity. It will make its properties differnt to the other elements in the periodic table that have a smaller atomic number.[3] One important difference from bismuth is the presence a stable oxidation state of +I (Uup+). The (Uup+) ion is thought to have chemical properties like Tl+.
[edit] In popular culture
Ununpentium is inside the island of stability. This is likely to be why it is found in popular culture. It is more likely to be talked about in UFO conspiracy theories.'
The most popular story about ununpentium is from Bob Lazar . It is thought to be pseudoscience.[4]
[edit] References
- ↑ Oganessian, Yu. Ts., et al. (2004). "Experiments on the synthesis of element 115 in the reaction 243Am(48Ca,xn)291−x115". Physical Review C 69: 021601. DOI:10.1103/PhysRevC.69.021601.
- ↑ Oganessian, Yu. Ts., et al. (2005). "Synthesis of elements 115 and 113 in the reaction 243Am + 48Ca". Physical Review C 72: 034611. DOI:10.1103/PhysRevC.72.034611.
- ↑ Keller, O. L., Jr., C. W. Nestor, Jr. (1974). "Predicted properties of the superheavy elements. III. Element 115, Eka-bismuth". Journal of Physical Chemistry 78: 1945. DOI:10.1021/j100612a015.
- ↑ Lazar Critique, D. L. Morgan.
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