flerovium

noun

fle·​ro·​vi·​um flə-ˈrō-vē-əm 

: a short-lived artificially produced radioactive element that has 114 protons

—symbol Fl see Chemical Elements Table

Examples of flerovium in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Scientists can produce flerovium at a rate of about three atoms a day, Düllmann says. —Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 May 2024

The heaviest element that researchers have studied chemically is flerovium (114)—the heaviest one that can be created in the quantities and with the duration needed for chemical experiments. —Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 May 2024

At room temperature, flerovium forms a strong bond with gold, very unlike a noble gas. —Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 May 2024

Most of the ions passed through the target, but over the course of a few weeks, a few collided with a plutonium nucleus and fused into flerovium. —Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 12 Feb. 2021

Word History

Etymology

Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions (of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia) + -ium

Note: The element was first produced in the Flerov Laboratory (Russian, Laboratorija jadernyx reakcij im. G.N. Flërova Ob"jedinënnogo instituta jadernyx issledovanij), founded by the Russian physicist Georgij Nikolaevič Flërov (1913-90).

First Known Use

2012, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

flerovium

noun

fle·​ro·​vi·​um

flə-ˈrō-vē-əm

: a short-lived artificially produced radioactive element see element