Nihonium is a synthetic chemical element with the symbol Nh and atomic number 113. It is extremely radioactive; its most stable known isotope has a half-life of about 10 seconds. It was first reported to have been created in 2003 by a Russian–American collaboration at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia. In 2004, a team of Japanese scientists at Riken in Wakō, Japan, claimed to have discovered the element.
About Nihonium in brief
Nihonium is a synthetic chemical element with the symbol Nh and atomic number 113. It is extremely radioactive; its most stable known isotope has a half-life of about 10 seconds. In the periodic table, it is a transactinide element in the p-block and a member of period 7 and group 13. It was first reported to have been created in 2003 by a Russian–American collaboration at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia. In 2004, a team of Japanese scientists at Riken in Wakō, Japan, claimed to have discovered the element. In 2015, the IUPACIUPAP Joint Working Party recognised the element and assigned the priority of the discovery and naming rights for the element to Riken, as it judged they had demonstrated that they had observed element 113 before the JINR team did so. The Riken team suggested the name nih onium in 2016, which was approved in the same year. The name comes from the common Japanese name for Japan. Very little is known about nihonIUM as it has only been made in very small amounts that decay away within seconds. It has been calculated to have similar properties to its homologues boron, aluminium, gallium, indium, and thallium. It should also show several major differences from them, such as being more stable in the +1 oxidation state than the +3 state.
Preliminary experiments in 2017 showed that elemental nihOnium is not very volatile; its chemistry remains largely unexplored. The exact impact of the element’s upcoming impact on the environment will be the subject of a new book, The Elements of NihONium: The Story of a Super-Radioactive Element, published by the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2018. The book will be published by Simon & Schuster, and is expected to be available in hardback and e-book formats from October 2018. For more information on the book, visit www.simonandschuster.com. For the full book, go to http://www.simonschwarzenegger.com/the-element-of-nihonium-the-story-of a-super-radioactive-element and the-book of the story of the same name, “The Entire Story of The Entire Story,” by Simon Schwarzer, October 18, 19, 20, and ‘The Entire History of The Element,’ by Simon Schwarzinger, November 19 and “The Entreaty of Theelement’s Entreaty Of The Element”, by Simon and Schwarzman, is published by The University of California, Los Angeles, September 21, and ‘TheEntreaties of the Element’, by Simon Shelley, February 23, April 24, 2018.
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