Sentences with phrase «oganesson in»
Element 118 has been named oganesson in honour of nuclear physicist Yuri Oganessian.
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Editor's note: This story was updated February 12, 2018, to clarify how oganesson could be chemically reactive and on February 14, 2018, to correct the description of the element's electron shells in the sidebar.
Unlike oganesson's protons, which are predicted to be in distinct shells in the nucleus, the element's neutrons are expected to mingle.
At room temperature, scientists expect that these oganesson atoms could clump together in a solid, unlike any other noble gases.
Instead of residing in discrete shells — as in just about every other element — oganesson's electrons appear to be a nebulous blob.
The discovery of element 118 was by scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Russia and at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US, and it was my colleagues who proposed the name oganesson.