German scientists synthesized a new chemical element

Physicists from Germany synthesized the 117th element of the periodic table . The results of his study authors published in the journal Physical Review Letters, briefly with him can be found at New Scientist.

Physics originally wanted to synthesize the 119th element of the table , but after unsuccessful attempts scientists decided to get the 117th chemical element . The specialists of the colliding atoms of calcium ( with charge number 20) and Berkeley ( with the number of protons equal to 97 ) . As a result, we obtained four atoms with the charge number equal to 117. Synthesized atoms existed for less than one- tenth of a second and split into lighter elements .



Previously, the 117th element scientists succeeded in synthesizing the U.S. and Russia . The element was discovered in 2009 at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna , isotopes used for this calcium -48 , received the National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, USA.

Researchers are going to formally add a new element in the periodic table . In 2011 were added Flerova ( with charge number 114) and Livermore ( the number of protons equal to 116). The first element was first synthesized in 1998 by a team of scientists from the U.S. and Russia and named after Soviet nuclear physicist Georgi Flerov . The second element was also synthesized in 2000 by American and Russian scientists and was named in honor of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the USA.