What we encounter in our educational lives periodic tablecontinues to expand over time. Although some elements in the table are natural, some are made up of artificial elements and researchers continue to work on developing new elements.

One of these elements is the 120th element. Unbinilium. This artificial element, whose symbol is Ubn and atomic number 120, is currently a ‘hypothetical’ element, that is to say it is not a real element, but rather an element whose place in the table is prepared by saying ‘it would be so are’ if it existed”. Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley International Laboratory in California are very close to synthesizing this element.

Titanium ions are used

nuclear scientist Dr. Jacklyn Gates and his team unveiled a promising new technique in their new study published last month. A neutron-rich isotope of plutonium plutonium-244was bombarded with supercharged titanium ions. As a result of this bombing livermorium (element 116) was revealed.

Researchers are now using this method They will be able to synthesize element 120. believes. They think they need to use a heavier element for this, for example California. So they expect to be able to synthesize Unbinilium.

Gates explains that this method and this unprecedented response before the synthesis of new elements indicates that it needs to be tested. According to the researchers, this new method, if successful, could also open an avenue for the synthesis of superheavy elements.