Ununbium
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Ununbium, or "eka mercury," is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the temporary symbol Uub and has the atomic number 112. Element 112 is one of the superheavy elements. Following periodic trends, it is expected to be a liquid metal more volatile than mercury.
History
Ununbium was first created on February 9, 1996 at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany. This element was created by fusing a zinc atom with a lead atom by accelerating zinc nuclei into a lead target in a heavy ion accelerator.The element was synthesized in 2000 and 2004 in the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Russia.
On May 2006 in the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research the synthesis of this element was confirmed by another method (the chemical identifying on final products of decay of element).
Ununbium is a temporary IUPAC systematic element name. Some research has referred to it as "eka-mercury".
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