A Visual Encyclopedia of the Periodic Table

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The Oxygen Group

Livermorium

Lv

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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, USA

Heavy ion cyclotron,

Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia

Livermorium

has been

named

after this

laboratory.

When livermorium atoms were first

produced in 2000, they broke apart in

a fraction of a second. The first successful

attempt to create atoms of this element was

made at the Joint Institute of Nuclear

Research at Dubna, Russia. The team worked

with material provided by the Lawrence

Livermore National Laboratory in California,

USA. This highly radioactive element was

produced by firing calcium atoms at curium

atoms in a particle accelerator (a machine

in which atoms are smashed together).

State: Solid

Discovery: 2000

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