Abstract
On a stage in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization headquarters in Paris, Yuri Oganessian holds a microphone in one hand and a small remote control in the other. Over the next 20 minutes, a hushed auditorium listens as he describes how the periodic table of elements has grown. To date, 118 elements currently populate it. The heaviest of those, oganesson, was named after Oganessian himself. But during the talk, which took place in January at the launch of the International Year of the Periodic Table, Oganessian says, discovering the superheavy elements (SHEs) with proton numbers 104 and above has been like opening Pandora’s box. Many unexpected problems have poured out, he says, some that are perhaps more difficult to solve than making SHEs in the first place. The discovery of these newer elements has prompted scientists to ask not just whether even heavier elements can be made
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