Ununennium

Ununennium, also known as eka-francium or element 119, is the hypothetical chemical element with symbol Uue and atomic number 119. Ununennium and Uue are the temporary systematic IUPAC name and symbol respectively, which are used until the element is discovered, confirmed, and a permanent name is decided upon. In the periodic table of the elements, it is expected to be an s-block element, an alkali metal, and the first element in the eighth period. It is the lightest element that has not yet been synthesized.

Ununennium, ₁₁₉Uue

Ununennium
Pronunciation	/ˌuːn.uːnˈɛniəm/ (listen) ​(OON-oon-EN-ee-əm)
Alternative names	element 119, eka-francium
Mass number	[315] (predicted)
Ununennium in the periodic table
Hydrogen Helium Lithium Beryllium Boron Carbon Nitrogen Oxygen Fluorine Neon Sodium Magnesium Aluminium Silicon Phosphorus Sulfur Chlorine Argon Potassium Calcium Scandium Titanium Vanadium Chromium Manganese Iron Cobalt Nickel Copper Zinc Gallium Germanium Arsenic Selenium Bromine Krypton Rubidium Strontium Yttrium Zirconium Niobium Molybdenum Technetium Ruthenium Rhodium Palladium Silver Cadmium Indium Tin Antimony Tellurium Iodine Xenon Caesium Barium Lanthanum Cerium Praseodymium Neodymium Promethium Samarium Europium Gadolinium Terbium Dysprosium Holmium Erbium Thulium Ytterbium Lutetium Hafnium Tantalum Tungsten Rhenium Osmium Iridium Platinum Gold Mercury (element) Thallium Lead Bismuth Polonium Astatine Radon Francium Radium Actinium Thorium Protactinium Uranium Neptunium Plutonium Americium Curium Berkelium Californium Einsteinium Fermium Mendelevium Nobelium Lawrencium Rutherfordium Dubnium Seaborgium Bohrium Hassium Meitnerium Darmstadtium Roentgenium Copernicium Nihonium Flerovium Moscovium Livermorium Tennessine Oganesson Ununennium Unbinilium Unbiunium Unquadquadium Unquadpentium Unquadhexium Unquadseptium Unquadoctium Unquadennium Unpentnilium Unpentunium Unpentbium Unpenttrium Unpentquadium Unpentpentium Unpenthexium Unpentseptium Unpentoctium Unpentennium Unhexnilium Unhexunium Unhexbium Unhextrium Unhexquadium Unhexpentium Unhexhexium Unhexseptium Unhexoctium Unhexennium Unseptnilium Unseptunium Unseptbium Unbibium Unbitrium Unbiquadium Unbipentium Unbihexium Unbiseptium Unbioctium Unbiennium Untrinilium Untriunium Untribium Untritrium Untriquadium Untripentium Untrihexium Untriseptium Untrioctium Untriennium Unquadnilium Unquadunium Unquadbium Unquadtrium Fr ↑ Uue ↓ (Ust) oganesson ← ununennium → unbinilium
Atomic number (Z)	119
Group	group 1: H and alkali metals
Period	period 8
Block	s-block
Element category	Unknown chemical properties, but predicted to be an alkali metal
Electron configuration	[Og] 8s^1 (predicted)[1]
Electrons per shell	2, 8, 18, 32, 32, 18, 8, 1 (predicted)
Physical properties
Phase at STP	unknown (could be solid or liquid)[1]
Melting point	273–303 K ​(0–30 °C, ​32–86 °F) (predicted)[1]
Boiling point	903 K ​(630 °C, ​1166 °F) (predicted)[2]
Density (near r.t.)	3 g/cm^3 (predicted)[1]
Heat of fusion	2.01–2.05 kJ/mol (extrapolated)[3]
Atomic properties
Oxidation states	(+1), (+3) (predicted)[1]
Electronegativity	Pauling scale: 0.86 (predicted)[4]
Ionization energies	1st: 463.1 kJ/mol 2nd: 1698.1 kJ/mol (predicted)[5]
Atomic radius	empirical: 240 pm (predicted)[1]
Covalent radius	263–281 pm (extrapolated)[3]
Other properties
Crystal structure	​body-centered cubic (bcc) (extrapolated)[6]
CAS Number	54846-86-5
History
Naming	IUPAC systematic element name
Main isotopes of ununennium
Iso­tope Abun­dance Half-life (t1/2) Decay mode Pro­duct ^294Uue (predicted)[1] syn ~1–10 μs α ^290Ts ^295Uue (predicted)[7] syn 20 μs α ^291Ts ^296Uue (predicted)[7] syn 12 μs α ^292Ts

Experiments aimed at the synthesis of ununennium began in June 2018 at RIKEN in Japan; another attempt by the team at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at Dubna, Russia is planned to begin in late 2020. Prior to this, two unsuccessful attempts had been made to synthesize ununennium, one by an American team and one by a German team. Theoretical and experimental evidence has shown that the synthesis of ununennium will likely be far more difficult than that of the previous elements, and it may even be the penultimate element that can be synthesized with current technology.

Ununennium's position as the seventh alkali metal suggests that it would have similar properties to its lighter congeners: lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, caesium, and francium. However, relativistic effects may cause some of its properties to differ from those expected from a straight application of periodic trends. For example, ununennium is expected to be less reactive than caesium and francium and to be closer in behavior to potassium or rubidium, and while it should show the characteristic +1 oxidation state of the alkali metals, it is also predicted to show the +3 oxidation state, which is unknown in any other alkali metal.

History

Superheavy elements are produced by nuclear fusion. These fusion reactions can be divided into "hot" and "cold" fusion,[lower-alpha 1] depending on the excitation energy of the compound nucleus produced. In hot fusion reactions, very light, high-energy projectiles are accelerated toward very heavy targets (actinides), giving rise to compound nuclei at high excitation energy (~40–50 MeV) that may fission, or alternatively evaporate several (3 to 5) neutrons.[9] In cold fusion reactions (which use heavier projectiles, typically from the fourth period, and lighter targets, usually lead and bismuth), the fused nuclei produced have a relatively low excitation energy (~10–20 MeV), which decreases the probability that these products will undergo fission reactions. As the fused nuclei cool to the ground state, they require emission of only one or two neutrons. However, hot fusion reactions tend to produce more neutron-rich products because the actinides have the highest neutron-to-proton ratios of any elements that can presently be made in macroscopic quantities.[10]

Ununennium and unbinilium (elements 119 and 120) are the elements with the lowest atomic numbers that have not yet been synthesized. Attempts to synthesize them would push the limits of current technology, due to the decreasing cross sections of the production reactions and their probably short half-lives,[11] expected to be on the order of microseconds.[1][7] Elements beyond unbiunium (element 121) would likely be too short-lived to be detected with current technology: they would decay within a microsecond, before reaching the detectors. The possibility of detection of elements 121 through 124 depends greatly on the theoretical model being used, as their half-lives are predicted to be very close to the one-microsecond border.[11] Previously, important help (characterized as "silver bullets") in the synthesis of superheavy elements came from the deformed nuclear shells around hassium-270 which increased the stability of surrounding nuclei, and the existence of the quasi-stable neutron-rich isotope calcium-48 which could be used as a projectile to produce more neutron-rich isotopes of superheavy elements.[12] The more neutron-rich a superheavy nuclide is, the closer it is expected to be to the sought-after island of stability.[lower-alpha 2] Even so, the synthesized isotopes still have fewer neutrons than those expected to be in the island of stability.[15] Furthermore, using calcium-48 to synthesize ununennium would require a target of einsteinium-253 or -254, which are very difficult to produce in sufficiently large quantities (only micrograms are presently available; in comparison, milligrams of berkelium and californium are available). More practical production of further superheavy elements would require projectiles heavier than ⁴⁸Ca.[12]

Synthesis attempts

Past

The synthesis of ununennium was first attempted in 1985 by bombarding a target of einsteinium-254 with calcium-48 ions at the superHILAC accelerator at Berkeley, California:

²⁵⁴
₉₉Es
+ ⁴⁸
₂₀Ca
→ ³⁰²
₁₁₉Uue
* → no atoms

No atoms were identified, leading to a limiting cross section of 300 nb.[16] Later calculations suggest that the cross section of the 3n reaction (which would result in ²⁹⁹Uue and three neutrons as products) would actually be six hundred thousand times lower than this upper bound, at 0.5 pb.[17]

As ununennium is the lightest undiscovered element, it has been the target of synthesis experiments by German, Russian, and Japanese teams in recent years. The Russian team at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia planned to conduct an experiment before 2012, and no results were released, strongly implying that either the experiment was not done or no ununennium atoms were identified. From April to September 2012, an attempt to synthesize the isotopes ²⁹⁵Uue and ²⁹⁶Uue was made by bombarding a target of berkelium-249 with titanium-50 at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany.[18][19] Based on the theoretically predicted cross section, it was expected that an ununennium atom would be synthesized within five months of the beginning of the experiment.[11]

²⁴⁹
₉₇Bk
+ ⁵⁰
₂₂Ti
→ ²⁹⁹
₁₁₉Uue
* → ²⁹⁶
₁₁₉Uue
+ 3 ¹
₀
n

²⁴⁹
₉₇Bk
+ ⁵⁰
₂₂Ti
→ ²⁹⁹
₁₁₉Uue
* → ²⁹⁵
₁₁₉Uue
+ 4 ¹
₀
n

The experiment was originally planned to continue to November 2012,[20] but was stopped early to make use of the ²⁴⁹Bk target to confirm the synthesis of tennessine (thus changing the projectiles to ⁴⁸Ca).[21] This reaction between ²⁴⁹Bk and ⁵⁰Ti was predicted to be the most favorable practical reaction for formation of ununennium,[19] as it is rather asymmetrical,[11] though also somewhat cold.[21] (The reaction between ²⁵⁴Es and ⁴⁸Ca would be superior, but preparing milligram quantities of ²⁵⁴Es for a target is difficult.)[11] Nevertheless, the necessary change from the "silver bullet" ⁴⁸Ca to ⁵⁰Ti divides the expected yield of ununennium by about twenty, as the yield is strongly dependent on the asymmetry of the fusion reaction.[11]

Due to the predicted short half-lives, the GSI team used new "fast" electronics capable of registering decay events within microseconds.[19] No ununennium atoms were identified, implying a limiting cross section of 70 fb.[21] The predicted actual cross section is around 40 fb, which is at the limits of current technology.[11] (The record lowest cross section of an experimentally successful reaction is 30 fb for the reaction between ²⁰⁹Bi and ⁷⁰Zn producing nihonium.)[11]

Present

The team at RIKEN in Wakō, Japan began bombarding curium-248 targets with a vanadium-51 beam in June 2018[22] to search for element 119. Curium was chosen as a target, rather than heavier berkelium or californium, as these heavier targets are difficult to prepare.[23] The ²⁴⁸Cm targets were provided by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which had provided the necessary ²⁴⁹Bk target from the synthesis of tennessine (element 117) at Dubna. The RIKEN experiment began by being conducted at a cyclotron while it upgrades its linear accelerators, which resume operation in 2020. Bombardment may be continued with both machines until the first event is observed; the experiment is currently running intermittently for at least 100 days per year.[23][24] Hideto En'yo, director of the RIKEN Nishina Centre, predicted that elements 119 and 120 would probably be discovered by 2022.[25] The RIKEN team's efforts are being bankrolled by the Emperor of Japan.[26]

²⁴⁸
₉₆Cm
+ ⁵¹
₂₃V
→ ²⁹⁹
₁₁₉Uue
* → ²⁹⁶
₁₁₉Uue
+ 3 ¹
₀
n

²⁴⁸
₉₆Cm
+ ⁵¹
₂₃V
→ ²⁹⁹
₁₁₉Uue
* → ²⁹⁵
₁₁₉Uue
+ 4 ¹
₀
n

The produced isotopes of ununennium are expected to undergo two alpha decays to known isotopes of moscovium (²⁸⁸Mc and ²⁸⁷Mc respectively), which would anchor them to a known sequence of five further alpha decays and corroborate their production. The predicted cross section for these reactions is about 10 fb.[23]

Planned

Following the claimed synthesis of ²⁹³Og in 1999 at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from ²⁰⁸Pb and ⁸⁶Kr, the analogous reactions ²⁰⁹Bi + ⁸⁶Kr and ²⁰⁸Pb + ⁸⁷Rb were proposed for the synthesis of element 119 and its then-unknown alpha decay daughters, elements 117, 115, and 113.[27] The retraction of these results in 2001[28] and more recent calculations on the cross sections for "cold" fusion reactions cast doubt on this possibility; for example, a maximum yield of 2 fb is predicted for the production of ²⁹⁴Uue in the former reaction.[29] Radioactive ion beams may provide an alternative method utilizing a lead or bismuth target, and may enable the production of more neutron-rich isotopes should they become available at required intensities.[29]

The team at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia planned to begin new experiments on the synthesis of ununennium using the ²⁴⁹Bk + ⁵⁰Ti reaction in 2019 using a new experimental complex.[30][31][32][33][34][35] As of November 2019, the plan was for the experiment to begin in late 2020 and last approximately 150 days, with results in mid-2021 at the earliest.[36]

The laboratories at RIKEN in Japan and at the JINR in Russia are best suited to these experiments as they are the only ones in the world where long beam times are accessible for reactions with such low predicted cross sections.[37]

Naming

Using Mendeleev's nomenclature for unnamed and undiscovered elements, ununennium should be known as eka-francium. Using the 1979 IUPAC recommendations, the element should be temporarily called ununennium (symbol Uue) until it is discovered, the discovery is confirmed, and a permanent name chosen.[38] Although widely used in the chemical community on all levels, from chemistry classrooms to advanced textbooks, the recommendations are mostly ignored among scientists who work theoretically or experimentally on superheavy elements, who call it "element 119", with the symbol E119, (119) or 119.[1]

Predicted properties

Nuclear stability and isotopes

A chart of nuclide stability as used by the Dubna team in 2010. Characterized isotopes are shown with borders. Beyond element 118 (oganesson, the last known element), the line of known nuclides is expected to rapidly enter a region of instability, with no half-lives over one microsecond after element 121. The elliptical region encloses the predicted location of the island of stability.[11]

Orbitals with high azimuthal quantum number are raised in energy, eliminating what would otherwise be a gap in orbital energy corresponding to a closed proton shell at element 114, as shown in the left diagram which does not take this effect into account. This raises the next proton shell to the region around element 120, as shown in the right diagram, potentially increasing the half-lives of element 119 and 120 isotopes.[39]

The stability of nuclei decreases greatly with the increase in atomic number after curium, element 96, whose half-life is four orders of magnitude longer than that of any currently known higher-numbered element. All isotopes with an atomic number above 101 undergo radioactive decay with half-lives of less than 30 hours. No elements with atomic numbers above 82 (after lead) have stable isotopes.[40] Nevertheless, for reasons not yet well understood, there is a slight increase of nuclear stability around atomic numbers 110–114, which leads to the appearance of what is known in nuclear physics as the "island of stability". This concept, proposed by University of California professor Glenn Seaborg, explains why superheavy elements last longer than predicted.[41]

The alpha-decay half-lives predicted for ^291–307Uue are on the order of microseconds. The longest alpha-decay half-life predicted is ~485 microseconds for the isotope ²⁹⁴Uue.[42][43][44] When factoring in all decay modes, the predicted half-lives drop further to only tens of microseconds.[1][7] Some heavier isotopes may be more stable; Fricke and Waber predicted ³¹⁵Uue to be the most stable ununennium isotope in 1971.[2] This has consequences for the synthesis of ununennium, as isotopes with half-lives below one microsecond would decay before reaching the detector, and the heavier isotopes cannot be synthesised by the collision of any known usable target and projectile nuclei.[1][7] Nevertheless, new theoretical models show that the expected gap in energy between the proton orbitals 2f_7/2 (filled at element 114) and 2f_5/2 (filled at element 120) is smaller than expected, so that element 114 no longer appears to be a stable spherical closed nuclear shell, and this energy gap may increase the stability of elements 119 and 120. The next doubly magic nucleus is now expected to be around the spherical ³⁰⁶Ubb (element 122), but the expected low half-life and low production cross section of this nuclide makes its synthesis challenging.[39]

Atomic and physical

Being the first period 8 element, ununennium is predicted to be an alkali metal, taking its place in the periodic table below lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, caesium, and francium. Each of these elements has one valence electron in the outermost s-orbital (valence electron configuration ns¹), which is easily lost in chemical reactions to form the +1 oxidation state: thus the alkali metals are very reactive elements. Ununennium is predicted to continue the trend and have a valence electron configuration of 8s¹. It is therefore expected to behave much like its lighter congeners; however, it is also predicted to differ from the lighter alkali metals in some properties.[1]

The main reason for the predicted differences between ununennium and the other alkali metals is the spin–orbit (SO) interaction—the mutual interaction between the electrons' motion and spin. The SO interaction is especially strong for the superheavy elements because their electrons move faster—at velocities comparable to the speed of light—than those in lighter atoms.[45] In ununennium atoms, it lowers the 7p and 8s electron energy levels, stabilizing the corresponding electrons, but two of the 7p electron energy levels are more stabilized than the other four.[46] The effect is called subshell splitting, as it splits the 7p subshell into more-stabilized and the less-stabilized parts. Computational chemists understand the split as a change of the second (azimuthal) quantum number l from 1 to 1/2 and 3/2 for the more-stabilized and less-stabilized parts of the 7p subshell, respectively.[45][lower-alpha 3] Thus, the outer 8s electron of ununennium is stabilized and becomes harder to remove than expected, while the 7p_3/2 electrons are correspondingly destabilized, perhaps allowing them to participate in chemical reactions.[1] This stabilization of the outermost s-orbital (already significant in francium) is the key factor affecting ununennium's chemistry, and causes all the trends for atomic and molecular properties of alkali metals to reverse direction after caesium.[4]

Empirical (Na–Cs, Mg–Ra) and predicted (Fr–Uhp, Ubn–Uhh) atomic radii of the alkali and alkaline earth metals from the third to the ninth period, measured in angstroms[1][47]

Empirical (Na–Cs), semi-empirical (Fr), and predicted (Uue) electron affinities of the alkali metals from the third to the eighth period, measured in electron volts.[1][47] They decrease from Li to Cs, but the Fr value, 492±10 meV, is 20 meV higher than that of Cs, and that of Uue is much higher still at 662 meV.[48]

Empirical (Na–Fr, Mg–Ra) and predicted (Uue–Uhp, Ubn–Uhh) ionization energy of the alkali and alkaline earth metals from the third to the ninth period, measured in electron volts[1][47]

Due to the stabilization of its outer 8s electron, ununennium's first ionization energy—the energy required to remove an electron from a neutral atom—is predicted to be 4.53 eV, higher than those of the known alkali metals from potassium onward. This effect is so large that unbiunium (element 121) is predicted to have a lower ionization energy of 4.45 eV, so that the alkali metal in period 8 would not have the lowest ionization energy in the period, as is true for all previous periods.[1] Ununennium's electron affinity is expected to be far greater than that of caesium and francium; indeed, ununennium is expected to have an electron affinity higher than all the alkali metals lighter than it at about 0.662 eV, close to that of cobalt (0.662 eV) and chromium (0.676 eV).[48] Relativistic effects also cause a very large drop in the polarizability of ununennium[1] to 169.7 a.u.[49] Indeed, the static dipole polarisability (α_D) of ununennium, a quantity for which the impacts of relativity are proportional to the square of the element's atomic number, has been calculated to be small and similar to that of sodium.[50]

The electron of the hydrogen-like ununennium atom—oxidized so it has only one electron, Uue¹¹⁸⁺—is predicted to move so quickly that its mass is 1.99 times that of a non-moving electron, a feature coming from the relativistic effects. For comparison, the figure for hydrogen-like francium is 1.29 and the figure for hydrogen-like caesium is 1.091.[45] According to simple extrapolations of relativity laws, that indirectly indicates the contraction of the atomic radius[45] to around 240 pm,[1] very close to that of rubidium (247 pm); the metallic radius is also correspondingly lowered to 260 pm.[1] The ionic radius of Uue⁺ is expected to be 180 pm.[1]

Ununennium is predicted to have a melting point between 0 °C and 30 °C: thus it may be a liquid at room temperature.[5] It is not known whether this continues the trend of decreasing melting points down the group, as caesium's melting point is 28.5 °C and francium's is estimated to be around 8.0 °C.[51] The boiling point of ununennium is expected to be around 630 °C, similar to that of francium, estimated to be around 620 °C; this is lower than caesium's boiling point of 671 °C.[2][51] The density of ununennium has been variously predicted to be between 3 and 4 g/cm³, continuing the trend of increasing density down the group: the density of francium is estimated at about 2.48 g/cm³, and that of caesium is known to be 1.93 g/cm³.[2][3][51]

Chemical

Bond lengths and bond-dissociation energies of alkali metal dimers. Data for Fr₂ and Uue₂ is predicted.[52]

Compound	Bond length (Å)	Bond-dissociation energy (kJ/mol)
Li2	2.673	101.9
Na2	3.079	72.04
K2	3.924	53.25
Rb2	4.210	47.77
Cs2	4.648	43.66
Fr2	~ 4.61	~ 42.1
Uue2	~ 4.27	~ 53.4

The chemistry of ununennium is predicted to be similar to that of the alkali metals,[1] but it would probably behave more like potassium[53] or rubidium[1] than caesium or francium. This is due to relativistic effects, as in their absence periodic trends would predict ununennium to be even more reactive than caesium and francium. This lowered reactivity is due to the relativistic stabilization of ununennium's valence electron, increasing ununennium's first ionization energy and decreasing the metallic and ionic radii;[53] this effect is already seen for francium.[1]

The chemistry of ununennium in the +1 oxidation state should be more similar to the chemistry of rubidium than to that of francium. On the other hand, the ionic radius of the Uue⁺ ion is predicted to be larger than that of Rb⁺, because the 7p orbitals are destabilized and are thus larger than the p-orbitals of the lower shells. Ununennium may also show the +3 oxidation state,[1] which is not seen in any other alkali metal,[54] in addition to the +1 oxidation state that is characteristic of the other alkali metals and is also the main oxidation state of all the known alkali metals: this is because of the destabilization and expansion of the 7p_3/2 spinor, causing its outermost electrons to have a lower ionization energy than what would otherwise be expected.[1][54] Many ununennium compounds are expected to have a large covalent character, due to the involvement of the 7p_3/2 electrons in the bonding: this effect is also seen to a lesser extent in francium, which shows some 6p_3/2 contribution to the bonding in francium superoxide (FrO₂).[45] Thus, instead of ununennium being the most electropositive element, as a simple extrapolation would seem to indicate, caesium instead retains this position, with ununennium's electronegativity most likely being close to sodium's (0.93 on the Pauling scale).[4] The standard reduction potential of the Uue⁺/Uue couple is predicted to be −2.9 V, the same as that of the Fr⁺/Fr couple and just over that of the K⁺/K couple at −2.931 V.[5]

Bond lengths and bond-dissociation energies of MAu (M = an alkali metal). All data is predicted, except for the bond-dissociation energies of KAu, RbAu, and CsAu.[4]

Compound	Bond length (Å)	Bond-dissociation energy (kJ/mol)
KAu	2.856	2.75
RbAu	2.967	2.48
CsAu	3.050	2.53
FrAu	3.097	2.75
UueAu	3.074	2.44

In the gas phase, and at very low temperatures in the condensed phase, the alkali metals form covalently bonded diatomic molecules. The metal–metal bond lengths in these M₂ molecules increase down the group from Li₂ to Cs₂, but then decrease after that to Uue₂, due to the aforementioned relativistic effects that stabilize the 8s orbital. The opposite trend is shown for the metal–metal bond-dissociation energies. The Uue–Uue bond should be slightly stronger than the K–K bond.[4][52] From these M₂ dissociation energies, the enthalpy of sublimation (ΔH_sub) of ununennium is predicted to be 94 kJ/mol (the value for francium should be around 77 kJ/mol).[4]

The UueF molecule is expected to have a significant covalent character owing to the high electron affinity of ununennium. The bonding in UueF is predominantly between a 7p orbital on ununennium and a 2p orbital on fluorine, with lesser contributions from the 2s orbital of fluorine and the 8s, 6d_z², and the two other 7p orbitals of ununennium. This is very different from the behaviour of s-block elements, as well as gold and mercury, in which the s-orbitals (sometimes mixed with d-orbitals) are the ones participating in the bonding. The Uue–F bond is relativistically expanded due to the splitting of the 7p orbital into 7p_1/2 and 7p_3/2 spinors, forcing the bonding electrons into the largest orbital measured by radial extent: a similar expansion in bond length is found in the hydrides AtH and TsH.[55] The Uue–Au bond should be the weakest of all bonds between gold and an alkali metal, but should still be stable. This gives extrapolated medium-sized adsorption enthalpies (−ΔH_ads) of 106 kJ/mol on gold (the francium value should be 136 kJ/mol), 76 kJ/mol on platinum, and 63 kJ/mol on silver, the smallest of all the alkali metals, that demonstrate that it would be feasible to study the chromatographic adsorption of ununennium onto surfaces made of noble metals.[4] The enthalpy of adsorption of ununennium on a Teflon surface is predicted to be 17.6 kJ/mol, which would be the lowest among the alkali metals: this information would be very useful for future chemistry experiments on ununennium.[49] The ΔH_sub and −ΔH_ads values are not proportionally related for the alkali metals, as they change in opposite directions as atomic number increases.[4]

See also

• Extended periodic table

Notes

1. Despite the name, "cold fusion" in the context of superheavy element synthesis is a distinct concept from the idea that nuclear fusion can be achieved in room temperature conditions (see cold fusion).[8]
2. Stable isotopes of the lightest elements usually have a neutron–proton ratio close or equal to one (for example, the only stable isotope of aluminium has 13 protons and 14 neutrons,[13] making a neutron–proton ratio of 1.077). However, isotopes of heavier elements have higher neutron–proton ratios, increasing with the number of protons (iodine's only stable isotope has 53 protons and 74 neutrons, neutron–proton ratio of 1.396; gold's only stable isotope has 79 protons and 118 neutrons, neutron–proton ratio of 1.494; plutonium's most stable isotope has 94 protons and 150 neutrons, neutron–proton ratio of 1.596).[13] The trend is expected to continue to the superheavy elements,[14] making it difficult to synthesize their most stable isotopes, because the neutron–proton ratios of the elements they are synthesized from are lower than the expected ratios of the most stable isotopes of the superheavy elements.
3. The quantum number corresponds to the letter in the electron orbital name: 0 to s, 1 to p, 2 to d, etc. See azimuthal quantum number for more information.

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