element 115

Scientific  

1. An artificially produced radioactive element whose most stable confirmed isotopes have mass numbers of 287 and 288 and half-lives of less than one second.

2. Also called ununpentium

3. See Periodic Table

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Example Sentences

Researchers there have already made 60 atoms of moscovium, element 115, by firing ion beams at a thin layer of target material.

From Science Magazine

Work from other teams, such as a Swedish group using a German accelerator, helped to confirm element 115's existence.

From Nature

“The heavy nuclei makes an alpha decay to produce element 115, and this also decays by alpha decay,” says Jadambaa Khuyagbaatar of GSI, lead author of a paper reporting the results published May 1 in .

From Scientific American

Researchers in Sweden have reported strong evidence for the formation of element 115, temporarily called ununpentium.

From Nature

The Swedish research team was not the first to create element 115.

From Time