Oganesson

Oganesson is a synthetic chemical element with symbol Og and atomic number 118. Oganesson has the highest atomic number and highest atomic mass of all known elements. The radioactive oganesson atom is very unstable, and since 2005, only five (possibly six) atoms of the isotope Oganesson-294 have been created.

History

The element is named in honor of Yuri Oganessian. It was first created in 2002 at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia by a joint team of Russian and American scientists. In December 2015, it was recognized as one of four new elements by the Joint Working Party of the international scientific people at IUPAC and IUPAP. It was formally named on 28 November 2016.[1] It had a previous name given by the IUPAC called "Ununoctium" meaning "one-one-eight" in Latin. This was a placeholder name until the element was discovered and a name was given. The possibility of a seventh noble gas, after helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon, was considered almost as soon as the noble gas group was discovered. Danish chemist Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen predicted in April 1895, the year after the discovery of argon, that there was a whole group of chemically unreactive gases similar to argon that would link the halogen and alkali metal groups. He expected that the seventh of this series would end a 32-element period which contained elements like thorium and uranium and have an atomic weight of 292, close to the 294 now known for the first and only confirmed isotope of oganesson.

Chemistry

The chemistry of Oganesson cannot be found because of how radioactive it is and how short its half-life is, which is only 0.69 milliseconds. However, predictions can be made based on properties the group has in common with each other. Since it's a noble gas, it is predicted that it will be a diatomic molecule (it only pairs with itself).

Uses

Oganesson,  118Og
General properties
Pronunciation
Mass number294 (most stable isotope) (unconfirmed: 295)
Oganesson in the periodic table
Hydrogen Helium
Lithium Beryllium Boron Carbon Nitrogen Oxygen Fluorine Neon
Sodium Magnesium Aluminium Silicon Phosphorus Sulfur Chlorine Argon
Potassium Calcium Scandium Titanium Vanadium Chromium Manganese Iron Cobalt Nickel Copper Zinc Gallium Germanium Arsenic Selenium Bromine Krypton
Rubidium Strontium Yttrium Zirconium Niobium Molybdenum Technetium Ruthenium Rhodium Palladium Silver Cadmium Indium Tin Antimony Tellurium Iodine Xenon
Caesium Barium Lanthanum Cerium Praseodymium Neodymium Promethium Samarium Europium Gadolinium Terbium Dysprosium Holmium Erbium Thulium Ytterbium Lutetium Hafnium Tantalum Tungsten Rhenium Osmium Iridium Platinum Gold Mercury (element) Thallium Lead Bismuth Polonium Astatine Radon
Francium Radium Actinium Thorium Protactinium Uranium Neptunium Plutonium Americium Curium Berkelium Californium Einsteinium Fermium Mendelevium Nobelium Lawrencium Rutherfordium Dubnium Seaborgium Bohrium Hassium Meitnerium Darmstadtium Roentgenium Copernicium Nihonium Flerovium Moscovium Livermorium Tennessine Oganesson
Rn

Og

(Usb)
tennessineoganessonununennium
Atomic number (Z)118
Groupgroup 18
Periodperiod 7
Blockp-block
Element category  noble gas (predicted)
Electron configuration[Rn] 5f14 6d10 7s2 7p6 (predicted)[3][4]
Electrons per shell
2, 8, 18, 32, 32, 18, 8 (predicted)
Physical properties
Phase at STPOg: Unknown phase (predicted)[3]
Boiling point350±30 K ​(80±30 °C, ​170±50 °F) (extrapolated)[3]
Density when liquid (at m.p.)4.9–5.1 g/cm3 (predicted)[5]
Critical point439 K, 6.8 MPa (extrapolated)[6]
Heat of fusion23.5 kJ/mol (extrapolated)[6]
Heat of vaporization19.4 kJ/mol (extrapolated)[6]
Atomic properties
Oxidation states(−1),[4] (0), (+1),[7] (+2),[8] (+4),[8] (+6)[4] (predicted)
Ionization energies
  • 1st: 860.1 kJ/mol (predicted)[9]
  • 2nd: 1560 kJ/mol (predicted)[10]
Covalent radius157 pm (predicted)[11]
Other properties
Natural occurrenceOg: Synthetic
Crystal structureface-centered cubic (fcc)
(extrapolated)[12]
CAS Number54144-19-3
History
Namingafter Yuri Oganessian
PredictionNiels Bohr (1922)
DiscoveryJoint Institute for Nuclear Research and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2002)
Main isotopes of oganesson
Iso­tope Abun­dance Half-life (t1/2) Decay mode Pro­duct
294Og[13] syn 0.69 ms[14] α 290Lv
SF
295Og[15] syn 181 ms? α 291Lv
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It currently has no uses due to how radioactive and how short its half-life is.

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References

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