element 116

1. An artificially produced radioactive element whose most stable isotope has a mass number of 293 and a half-life of less than one-tenth of a second.

2. Also called ununhexium

3. See Periodic Table

Example Sentences

And in 2000 the Dubna group and the Livermore group announced that they had synthesized element 116 by fusing calcium and curium.

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In one decay chain, for instance, element 116 decays to element 114 with a lifetime of about 26 milliseconds.

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