Nuevos Elementos en la Tabla Periodica: Copernicum.

Científicos crearon un nuevo elemento a añadir en la tabla periódica, este tipo de elementos, (los ultimos de la tabla periodica arriba del 100) han sido creados en laboratorios ya que no existen en la naturaleza y duran apenas unas fracciones de segundos.

Donde se generó este nuevo elemento llamado Copernicum, en honor a Nicolás Copernico fué en el un acelerador llamado GSI, donde desde 1981 han creado 6 nuevos elementos, desde el 107 al 112 que es el acual elemento nombrado Cp en la tabla periódica.

De los elementos que han creado allí son el 107 llamado Bohrium, 108 Hassium, 109 Meitnerium, 110 Darmstadtium, 111 llamado Roetgenium y el actual 112 nombrado copernicum que es el mas pesado de todos, unas 277 veces mas que el hidrógeno.

A few weeks ago, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, IUPAC, officially confirmed their discovery. In around six months, IUPAC will officially endorse the new element’s name. This period is set to allow the scientific community to discuss the suggested name “copernicium” before the IUPAC naming.

del Since 1981, GSI accelerator experiments have yielded the discovery of six chemical elements, which carry the atomic numbers 107 to 112. The discovering teams at GSI already named five of them: element 107 is called bohrium, element 108 hassium, element 109 meitnerium, element 110 darmstadtium, and element 111 is named roentgenium.

Element 112 is the heaviest element in the periodic table, 277 times heavier than hydrogen. It is produced by a nuclear fusion, when bombarding zinc ions onto a lead target. As the element already decays after a split second, its existence can only be proved with the help of extremely fast and sensitive analysis methods. Twenty-one scientists from Germany, Finland, Russia and Slovakia have been involved in the experiments that led to the discovery of element 112. Via  Sciencedaily