Dr. Alexander Yakushev, spokesperson of the experiment, and Dr. Lotte Lens are fine-tuning the data acquisition system for the registration of flerovium atoms.
Superheavy element flerovium is a volatile metal. Dr. Alexander Yakushev, spokesperson of the experiment, and Dr. Lotte Lens are fine-tuning the data acquisition system for the registration of flerovium atoms. An international research team has succeeded in gaining new insights into the chemical properties of the superheavy element flerovium - element 114 - at the accelerator facilities of the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt. The measurements show that flerovium is the most volatile metal in the periodic table. Flerovium is thus the heaviest element in the periodic table that has been chemically studied. With the results, published in the journal Frontiers in Chemistry , GSI confirms its leading position in the study of the chemistry of superheavy elements and opens new perspectives for the international facility FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research), which is currently under construction. Under the leadership of groups from Darmstadt and Mainz, the two longest-lived flerovium isotopes currently known, flerovium-288 and flerovium-289, were produced using the accelerator facilities at GSI/FAIR and were chemically investigated at the TASCA experimental setup.
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