Element record / Post-transition metal
Livermorium
MetalPrimarily synthetic supply- Atomic number
- 116
- Atomic mass (u)
- 293.205
- Category
- Post-transition metal
- Standard state
- Expected to be a Solid
- Melting point
- Not reported
- Boiling point
- Not reported
- Density (g/cm³)
- Not reported in this source
- Electronegativity (Pauling)
- Not reported in this source
- Electron configuration
- [Rn]7s2 7p4 5f14 6d10 (predicted)
- Oxidation states
- +4, +2, -2
- Atomic radius (pm)
- Not reported in this source
- First ionization energy (eV)
- Not reported in this source
Discovery & recognition
- Discovery year / period (PubChem)
- 2000
- Discovery credited to (RSC)
- Scientists from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, USA.
- Date or period recorded by RSC
- 2000
- Discovery place
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Russia; target supplied by LLNL, United States
An ancient date does not identify a first human discovery. Different references may date observation, isolation and formal recognition differently.
Natural occurrence & production
This transuranium element is primarily produced through nuclear reactions in reactors or particle accelerators. Some transuranium elements also occur naturally in extremely small traces; that is different from a mineable deposit.
“Livermorium does not occur naturally. It is made by bombarding curium atoms with calcium. The most stable isotope has a half-life of…”
Royal Society of Chemistry · occurrence excerpt ↗
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Reference values are not product specifications. Blank values have not been estimated. For superheavy elements, some properties and family assignments are theoretical or incompletely measured.
