{"id":180356,"date":"2024-08-16T15:03:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T19:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/noticias\/create-element-116-of-the-journal-board\/"},"modified":"2024-08-16T16:02:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T20:02:55","slug":"create-element-116-of-the-journal-board","status":"publish","type":"noticias","link":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/create-element-116-of-the-journal-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Berkeley Lab creates element 116, approaching heaviest atom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has achieved a significant breakthrough in the fabrication of superheavy elements.\nAn international team of researchers has successfully created element 116, known as livermium<\/strong>, using a beam of titanium-50.\nThis achievement marks a crucial step toward the possible creation of element 120, which would be the heaviest atom discovered to date. <\/p>\n\n

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The new element was created with a titanium-50 beam.\nSource: Berkeley Lab <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Element 116 manufacturing process<\/h2>\n\n

Fabrication of this element, a superheavy element, required 22 days of continuous operation in the laboratory’s 88-inch cyclotron.\nThis process demonstrated that a titanium-50 beam can be effective in producing elements close to the so-called “island of stability,”<\/strong> a theoretical region of the chemical element table where atomic nuclei could be more stable and, therefore, easier to study. <\/p>\n\n

Jacklyn Gates, a nuclear scientist at the laboratory, highlighted the importance of this breakthrough: <\/p>\n\n

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The creation of a new element is extremely rare.\nThis success gives us confidence to pursue the manufacture of element 120. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

According to estimates, producing element 120 could take up to ten times longer than livermory, but the researchers are optimistic.<\/p>\n

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