(Elements & Compounds) a transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with calcium-48 atoms. Symbol: Fl; atomic no: 114; atomic wt: 298 [C21: named after G. N.Flerov(1913–90), Soviet physicist ] Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCol...
To date we haven't been able to test this thesis, because no isotope 298 has been produced. The first sighting of element 114 was in 1998 at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at Dubna in Russia. This doesn't mean that we can look forward todubniumas a name for the element, th...
Flerovium is predicted to be near the centre of the theorized island of stability, and it is expected that heavier flerovium isotopes, especially the possibly magic 298Fl, may have even longer half-lives. Introduction The heaviest[a] atomic nuclei are created in nuclear reactions that combine...