🔹 Basic Information

• Element Name: Flerovium
• Discovered By: Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Russia) & Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (USA)
• Year of Discovery: First synthesized in 1998; officially named in 2012
• Category: Post-transition Metal / Superheavy Element
• Group: 14 (Same group as carbon, silicon, lead)
• State at Room Temperature: Unknown (likely solid or possibly volatile) ❓

Flerovium is a man-made, radioactive element created in a laboratory. It’s part of the group of superheavy elements.

🔸 Chemical Properties

• Chemical Symbol: Fl
• Atomic Number: 114
• Atomic Mass: ~289 u (most stable isotope)
• Valency: Predicted: +2, +4
• Electronic Configuration: [Rn] 5f¹⁴ 6d¹⁰ 7s² 7p² (predicted)

Though it sits under lead on the periodic table, flerovium may not act like a typical metal due to relativistic effects that influence its electrons.

📘 Basic Things to Know

Flerovium is named after the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions in Russia, honoring physicist Georgy Flerov, a pioneer in nuclear science 🇷🇺.

🤔 Interesting Facts

• Only a few atoms of flerovium have ever been created, each existing for just seconds or milliseconds ⏱️
• It was made by bombarding plutonium with calcium nuclei in a particle accelerator 💥
• Some scientists believe it might be more like a noble gas in behavior than a metal 🤔
• It plays a big role in exploring the “island of stability”, where superheavy elements might live longer ⚛️
• Its chemistry is mostly theoretical because it’s so hard to study directly

🔧 Common Uses

⚠️ Flerovium has no commercial or practical uses due to its extreme rarity and short half-life.

• Scientific Research: Helps scientists explore superheavy element creation and decay 🔬
• Periodic Table Studies: Used to understand the behavior of very heavy elements
• Nuclear Physics: Helps test models of atomic structure and nuclear stability

📚 Conclusion

Flerovium is a superheavy and short-lived element that exists only in the lab. For students, it shows how science is always pushing boundaries and discovering new parts of the universe, one atom at a time! 🌟🧪