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Tennessee gets a place at the table with newest element: Tennessine

Posted at 12:21 pm June 8, 2016
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Robert Grzywacz

Robert Grzywacz

One of the newest members of the periodic table will likely have a familiar sound to it, even if the spelling might be a bit off: Tennessine.

Proposed as a nod to researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Tennessee, who helped confirm its existence, element 117 would be only the second to be named for a state. Since the name Tennessee has its origins in the name of the Cherokee village of Tanasi, it also becomes the first element with Native American roots.

The International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry formally verified the discovery and has now put forth the name Tennessine—pronounced to rhyme with green—for public comment.

Robert Grzywacz, director of the UT-ORNL Joint Institute for Nuclear Physics and Applications and a physics professor at UT, served as UT’s connection to the project. Grzywacz helped develop a process that measures the decay of nuclear materials down to one millionth of a second, which was vital in proving the existence of the new element. [Read more…]

Filed Under: College, Education, Front Page News, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: David Miller, element 113, element 115, element 117, International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry, Jimmy G. Cheek, Mc, Moscovium, Nathan Brewer, NH, Nihomium, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Og, Oganesson, ORNL, periodic table, Robert Grzywacz, superheavy element, Tennessine, Ts, University of Tennessee, UT-ORNL Joint Institute for Nuclear Physics and Applications, Vanderbilt University, Yuri Oganessian

ORNL associate lab director to discuss discovery of elements 115, 117; super-heavy nuclei; ‘island of stability’

Posted at 9:20 pm March 8, 2016
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Jim Roberto

Jim Roberto

Jim Roberto, an associate laboratory director at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will discuss the discovery of elements 115 and 117, super-heavy nuclei, and the “island of stability” during a Wednesday evening talk next week.

Roberto, ORNL associate laboratory director for science and technology partnerships, will give the featured talk to the ORION astronomy club at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 16. The talk will be at the Grove Theater at 123 Randolph Road in Oak Ridge.

Roberto’s talk is titled “The Discovery of Elements 115 and 117: SuperHeavy Nuclei and the ‘Island of Stability.'” Roberto will review recent progress in super-heavy element research with particular focus on the significance of element 117 and its decay products as evidence for the existence of the presumed “island of stability” for super-heavy nuclei, a press release said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, Meetings and Events, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: berkelium-249, calcium-48, element 113, element 117, element 118, Grove Theater, High Flux Isotope Reactor, International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry, island of stability, IUPAC, Jim Roberto, JINR, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORION, ORION astronomy club, ORNL, Radiochemical Engineering Development Center, RIKEN, super-heavy nuclei, The Discovery of Elements 115 and 117: SuperHeavy Nuclei and the Island of Stability, U.S. Department of Energy

Synthetic material from ORNL used in discovery of new elements 115, 117

Posted at 10:41 pm January 6, 2016
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

ORNL Berkelium-249

Berkelium-249, contained in the greenish fluid in the tip of the vial, was crucial to the experiment that discovered element 117. It was made in the research reactor at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. (Photo by ORNL)

 

Twenty-two milligrams of a very pure synthetic material produced at Oak Ridge National Laboratory were used in the discovery of two new chemical elements that will help fill out the seventh row of the periodic table.

The synthetic element, berkelium-249, was produced in a project that started with a six-month irradiation of a target material at the High Flux Isotope Reactor at ORNL. The resulting product was separated and processed during a three-month period at the lab’s Radiochemical Engineering Development Center.

The berkelium-249 was then shipped to the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, or JINR, in Dubna, Russia, where it was intensely bombarded, or irradiated, with calcium-48 ions, creating six atoms of element 117, said Jim Roberto, ORNL associate lab director for science and technology partnerships. Berkelium-249, which does not exist in nature, has a 300-day lifetime, so researchers had a short time to do their experiments.

Element 117 is one of four new elements that have been officially verified by the International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry. The IUPAC announced the discoveries on December 30. The other three are elements 113, 115, and 118. Element 115 is produced when element 117 decays. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Front Page News, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, Slider, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: berkelium-249, californium-252, chemical elements, element 113, element 115, element 117, element 118, element 61, Glenn Seaborg, Graphite Reactor, GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, High Flux Isotope Reactor, International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry, IUPAC, Jim Roberto, JINR, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, neutrons, new elements, nuclei, nucleus, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, periodic table, promethium, protons, Radiochemical Engineering Development Center, RIKEN, thermal neutron flux, Thom Mason, U.S. Department of Energy, University of Tennessee, UT, Vanderbilt University

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