oganesson

American  

[oh-gan-uh-suhn] / oʊˈgæn ə sən /

noun

Chemistry, Physics.

1. a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a short half-life. Og; 118.

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Etymology

Origin of oganesson

Named in 2016; after Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian (born 1933), Russian nuclear physicist of Armenian descent + -on ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

“Oganesson” is constructed around his delicate strummed riff, which recalls the ease of bossa nova, and it has an airiness and jazziness not found elsewhere on the record.

From The Wall Street Journal

If so, it could form a periodic table, much like our own, that atlas of all known matter that includes everything from hydrogen to oganesson.

From Salon

And on the ground floor, Oganesson blinks out, Half her life gone in less than a millisecond, Happy to be in a poem—or in anything at all really.

From Scientific American

Oganesson sits at the bottom of the column with the noble gases, but a paper from 2017 suggests that it may not belong there: the velocities of its supercharged electrons likely approach the speed of light, and so the element may not act like the gases with which it’s grouped.

From The New Yorker

Instead, oganesson and its neighbors might follow the rules of relativity; time and space might appear to bend inside them, and their properties could follow suit.

From The New Yorker