oganesson
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of oganesson
Named in 2016; after Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian (born 1933), Russian nuclear physicist of Armenian descent + -on 2 ( def. )
Example Sentences
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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 ● Nov. 30, 2023
Scerri doesn’t believe the periodic table is seriously threatened by elements like oganesson; he points out that some of the electrons in gold atoms spin at velocities that approach light speed, too.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 27, 2019
But the periodic table contains still more; the heaviest so far is element 118, oganesson, a “super-heavy” element with 118 protons and a half-life of half a millisecond.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2019
Fittingly, no living person has shaped the architecture of the periodic table more than he has, which is why element 118 is called oganesson.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 30, 2019
Electrons generally orbit atomic nuclei in distinct shells, but calculations show that the outer electrons of oganesson, the heaviest element found so far, may instead orbit the nucleus as a gas.
From Nature ● Feb. 5, 2018
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