Livermorium - element symbol: Lv - is the name accepted by the IUPAC in May 2012 for the artificial chemical element 116 (systematic name: Ununhexium, Uuh).
The name was chosen in honor of the city of Livermore and the home of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (see also: discovery of flerovium and livermorium).
Due to its position in the periodic table, livermorium probably has 6 valence electrons: 7s2 7p4. The electron configuration is:
1s | 2s | 2p | 3s | 3p | 3d | 4s | 4p | 4d | 4f | 5s | 5p | 5d | 5f | 6s | 6p | 6d | 6f | 7s | 7p |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 4 |
Shorthand electron configuration of Livermorium: [Rn] 5f14 6d10 7s2 7p4.
The following table lists the ionization energies IE (ionization potentials); the IE is the energy required in electron volt (eV) per atom to separate a given electron from an Livermorium atom.
IE1 | IE2 | IE3 | IE4 | IE5 |
---|---|---|---|---|
6.878 | 13.779 | 29.526 | 39.472 | 62.989 |
An overview of the nuclides as well as the isotopic data and properties are listed on the following page: Livermorium isotopes.
[1] - Yu. Ts. Oganessian et al.:
Synthesis of the isotopes of elements 118 and 116 in the 249Cf and 245Cm + 48Ca fusion reactions.
In: Physical Review C, (2006), DOI 10.1103/PhysRevC.74.044602.
[2] - S. Hofmann, S. Heinz, R. Mann et al.:
The reaction 48Ca + 248Cm → 296116* studied at the GSI-SHIP.
In: The European Physical Journal A, (2012), DOI 10.1140/epja/i2012-12062-1.
[3] - Kat Day:
Uuh? No. It's livermorium!.
In: Nature Chemistry, (2016), DOI 10.1038/nchem.2593.
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