just browsing round the internet and came across this:

 

http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.3869

and

http://arxivblog.com/?p=385

 

They might have found Unbibium-292 in a sample of thorium. and not out of a nuclear reactor either.

 

of course the concentration is vanishingly tiny.

 

i really hope this is for real as it would be a major find and could turn up some interesting new chemistry.

 

any thoughts from the masses?

unbibiium? element 122? seriously?

 

hmmmmm

 

that'd be in the third row of the f-block, right? holy crap.

Interesting.

If it's real then it's suprising that it hasn't been spotted before. Anyway, it shouldn't be difficult for someone to confirm it.

The original article (pdf) is found at:

http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0804/0804.3869.pdf

 

Of course with a new article, this was also linked on the website that insane_alien posted.

so would this be [uuo]6f0 7d2 8s2 then?

About the orbitals... is there are theoretical reason why the orbitals cannot have another geometry, other than the S, P, D and F? I could imagine that if we're looking at a superactinide element that there's a fifth geometry for an orbital. But I am unfamiliar with the quantum calculations that predict orbitals, so perhaps there's a theoretical reason why we file this new element in the category of "superactinide", and not a category of its own?

G block elements anyone?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-block

a link from that page:

 

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