Ununtrium

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Ununtrium is the temporary name of a synthetic element in the periodic table that has the temporary symbol Uut and has the atomic number 113. It comes from the alpha decay (release of a helium nucleus) of ununpentium.

1 History
2 Name
3 References
4 External links

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History

On February 1, 2004, ununtrium and ununpentium were reported by a team composed of Russian scientists at Dubna (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research), and American scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

On September 28, 2004, a team of Japanese scientists declared that they succeeded in synthesizing the element. Template:Ref,[1]

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Name

Ununtrium is a temporary IUPAC systematic element name. "Japonium" and "Rikenium" are as yet informal candidates for name. [2] Some research has referred to it as "eka-thallium."

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