Left: Georgy Flyorov, discoverer of spontaneous fission and founder of the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions (From flerovlab.jinr.ru). Right: flerovium as it appears on the periodic table. The heaviest known element in the same column as carbon: it’s flerovium! Whether its properties match that of carbon is yet to be determined however due to theContinue reading “Day 58: Flerovium”
Each day for the rest of 2020 I'll write a bit about a random element of the periodic table.
An Element A Day 