Flerovium

Flerovium is a radioactive chemical element with the element with the temporary symbol Uuq and name Ununquadium. Flerovium is new element to be add to the Periotic Table. Named for the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions in Dubna, where element 114 (Fl) and several other elements have been discovered. The new name will undergo a five-month public comment period before the official paperwork gets processed and they show up on the table. Element 114, previously known as ununquadium, which similarly is named in honor of Georgiy Flerov (1913-1990), a Russian physicist. Flerov's work and his writings to Joseph Stalin led to the development of the USSR's atomic bomb project. The researchers got their first glimpse at flerovium after firing calcium ions at a plutonium target. This element is a metal that is most likely solid. It was added along with Livermorium. Flerovium was discovered thirteen years ago by firing calcium-48 ions into plutonium targets to briefly fuse nuclei together that later helped the creation of the atomic bomb. About 80 decays of atoms of Flerovium have been observed to date, 50 directly and 30 from the decay of the heavier elements ununhexium and ununoctium. All decays have been assigned to the five neighboring isotopes with the mass numbers 285-289. Flerovium has the longest-lived isotope with a half-life of ~2.6 s.