Roentgenium

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Roentgenium

Roentgenium (former temporary name: unununium or eka-gold) is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Rg (former temporary symbol: Uuu) and atomic number 111 making it one of the super-heavy atoms. It is a synthetic element whose longest-lived isotope has a mass of 280 and a half-life of 3.6 seconds. Due to its presence in Group 11 it is a transition metal and so probably would appear as a heavy, solid, shiny metal. Due to the inert pair effect, it should be colored like gold.

History

It was first created at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany on December 8, 1994. Only three atoms of it were observed (all ²⁷²Rg), by the fusion of bismuth-209 and nickel-64 in a linear accelerator. (Nickel was bombarded onto the bismuth target.)

The name roentgenium was accepted as a permanent name on November 1 2004 in honor of Wilhelm Röntgen; before this date, the element was known under the temporary IUPAC systematic element name unununium. Some research has referred to it as "eka-gold".

Isotopes

Three isotopes of roentgenium are known. The longest-lived of these is ²⁸⁰Rg which decays through alpha decay and has a half-life of 3.6 s. The shortest-lived isotope is ²⁷²Rg which decays through alpha decay and has a half life of 1.5 ms. The other known isotope, ²⁷⁹Rg, decays through alpha decay and has a half-life of 170 ms.

Trivia

The elements in Group 11 used to informally be called the coinage metals, due to their historical use in coins.

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