A team of researchers from Japan’s Riken Center confirmed today that it has identified the 113th element of the periodic table, synthetic character and the provisional name uruntrio.
In a statement, the Japanese government institute the discovery of the new element was awarded, the finding dispute with a group of Russian and American researchers has conducted parallel investigations group.
The results of research conducted by the Riken will be published in the January issue of the Journal of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), the highest authority in this field, and responsible for determining the authorship of the discovery.
If the IUPAC confirmed that the Japanese team was the author of the decisive experiments for the discovery, it will have the right to give the official name of the new element of the periodic table.
The Russian-American team was the first to announce the discovery of element 113 in 2003, although the Japanese center claims to have compiled in 2012 conclusive data to confirm its existence.
The new synthetic element has 113 protons in its nucleus, and has been identified by a team led by Kosuke Morita Japanese scientist, University of Kyushu (southern Japan).
Morita has succeeded in synthesizing the element on three occasions by a method comprising colliding ions zinc on an ultrathin layer of bismuth.
“Now that we have demonstrated conclusively the existence of element 113, we plan to further investigate the uncharted territory of element 119 and beyond “Morita said in the statement.
” One day, we hope to reach the island of stable elements, “the Japanese researcher.
The synthetic elements not naturally occurring and artificially generated through experiments, and so far has created 24 such elements-including the plutonium, although they are unstable, he recalled the Riken.
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