If you are a fun of chemistry, there is something new to be added to the periodic table of elements, The element 118 : Ununoctium. I saw the news first on slashdot announcing that element 118 have been created. In science from discovered to created there is a big difference, maybe nerds there are more used to deal with technology where you can create. The nature of elements God created and we just discover what already exist.
Anyway Ununoctium is the temporary name of this noble gas with the atomic number 118. Ignoring instability due to likely radioactivity, scientists expect that:
* Ununoctium would be much more chemically reactive than xenon and radon. It likely would form stable oxides (UuoO3 etc) as well as chlorides and fluorides. However, its radioactivity means that, like radon, few compounds can be expected to form.
* If ununoctium were reasonably common in nature and if it formed a stable oxide, Uuo would likely occur as an oxide mineral and not as the gas.
Update : Someone told me that they “Actually created and discovered it, since they had to make it from smaller nuclei before it could be observed.”
