A method that helped create two atoms of the rare, super-heavy element livermorium may pave the way towards making the hypothetical element 120
The third-heaviest element in the universe has been made in a way that offers a route for synthesising the elusive element 120, which would be the heaviest element in the periodic table.
“We were very shocked, very surprised, very relieved that we didn’t make any bad choices in setting up the instrumentation,” saysShe and her colleagues created the element livermorium by smashing a beam of charged titanium atoms into a piece of plutonium. Titanium has never been used in such an experiment because it is tricky to turn it into a well-controlled beam and it takes millions of trillions of collisions to produce very few new atoms.
“I think we’re a lot closer to knowing what we have to do,” says Gates. “And having the chance to put a new element on the periodic table . So few people have that opportunity.”
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