Transactinide element

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In chemistry, transactinide elements are the chemical elements with atomic numbers greater than those of the actinides, the heaviest of which is lawrencium (103). The transactinide elements are also called super-heavy elements.

All transactinide elements are also transuranium elements, that is, have an atomic number greater than that of uranium (92), an actinide. The further distinction of having a greater atomic number than the actinides is significant in several ways:

The transactinide elements all have electrons in the 6d subshell in their ground state (and thus are placed in the d-block). The last actinide, lawrencium, also has one electron in the 6d subshell.
Except for dubnium, even the longest-lasting isotopes of transactinide elements have extremely short half-lives, measured in seconds, or smaller units.
The element naming controversy involved the first five or six transactinide elements. These elements thus used three-letter systematic names for many years after their discovery had been confirmed. (Usually the three-letter names are replaced with two-letter names relatively shortly after a discovery has been confirmed.)

All of the transactinide elements are radioactive and have only been obtained synthetically in laboratories. None of these elements has ever been collected in a macroscopic sample. Transactinide elements are all named after either nuclear physicists or important locations involved in the synthesis of the elements.

The term transactinide is an adjective, and is not commonly used alone as a noun to refer to the transactinide elements.

List of the transactinide elements:

104 Rutherfordium, Rf
105 Dubnium, Db
106 Seaborgium, Sg
107 Bohrium, Bh
108 Hassium, Hs
109 Meitnerium, Mt
110 Darmstadtium, Ds
111 Roentgenium, Rg
112 Ununbium, Uub*
113 Ununtrium, Uut*
114 Ununquadium, Uuq*
115 Ununpentium, Uup*
116 Ununhexium, Uuh*

*The existence of these elements has been confirmed, however the names and symbols given are provisional as no names for the elements have been agreed on.

Transactinide element

List of the transactinide elements:

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