Element 118: Oganesson
My blog posts are going to continue to be science-lite until we’re done with our move from Maine to Idaho, sometime in mid-October. This week’s science-lite offering is our newest element, the element 188, which was officially named just last year as Oganesson, after physicist Yuri Oganessian, who headed the joint Russian-American team that made the discovery of the element in 2006. They collided atoms of California-249 and Calcium-48 to produce three – and maybe even four – atoms of…