A collection of articles related to heavy or synthetic elements
![New Kids on the Table: Is Element 118 a Noble Gas? – Part 1](https://www.chemistryviews.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/common/images/thumbnails/source/1622a1858a9.jpg)
The synthesis of heavy elements
![The Chemistry of Superheavy Elements](https://www.chemistryviews.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/common/images/thumbnails/source/16e5b990cb8.png)
C. E. Düllmann, GSI Darmstadt, gives insight into the chemistry of short-lived, superheavy atoms
![Studying Superheavy Elements](https://www.chemistryviews.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/common/images/thumbnails/source/16e5b767f0b.png)
M. Block, GSI Darmstadt, gives an insight into the physics of short-lived, superheavy atoms
![Long-lived, Superheavy Elements](https://www.chemistryviews.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/common/images/thumbnails/source/13958ce3ec8.jpg)
Measurements of the shell effect in atomic nuclei help understand above which mass extremely heavy artificial elements no longer decay
![Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 Named](https://www.chemistryviews.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/common/images/thumbnails/source/1553046a65e.jpg)
The proposed names are nihonium, moscovium, tennessine, and oganesson
![Elements 114 And 116 Named](https://www.chemistryviews.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/common/images/thumbnails/source/134006342b0.jpg)
The IUPAC recommended new proposed names for the latest heavy elements to be added to the periodic table
![Actinide Series Ends with Lawrencium](https://www.chemistryviews.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/common/images/thumbnails/source/168d2d2723b.png)
Measurement of first ionization potentials of heavy elements
![New Kids on the Table: Is Element 118 a Noble Gas? – Part 1](https://www.chemistryviews.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/common/images/thumbnails/source/1622a1858a9.jpg)
The synthesis of heavy elements
![Welcome to Stability Island](https://www.chemistryviews.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/common/images/thumbnails/source/12987eab686.jpg)
New experimental set-up designed to detect superheavy elements helps probe the predicted island of stability around element 114.
![Happy Birthday Darmstadtium!](https://www.chemistryviews.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/20231109_Darmstadtium_HappyBirthday-125x94.png)
The element darmstadtium (Ds) was first created on November 9, 1994, at the Institute for Heavy Ion Research (GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany
![Minor Contributors Count as Much as Heroic Discoverers](https://www.chemistryviews.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/common/images/thumbnails/source/16e02395c47.png)
Interview with E. Scerri about his fascination for the periodic system, how discoveries are made, and what makes Mendeleev unique
![100th Birthday: Albert Ghiorso](https://www.chemistryviews.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/common/images/thumbnails/source/14dd82fcad4.jpg)
Nuclear researcher and co-discoverer of 12 elements
![Chemical Poems: Unbihexium](https://www.chemistryviews.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/common/images/thumbnails/source/149a8f9ce34.jpg)
Poems based on the natural properties of each of the elements of the periodic table
![Chemical Poems: Ununseptium](https://www.chemistryviews.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/common/images/thumbnails/source/149a8f12b0f.jpg)
Poems based on the natural properties of each of the elements of the periodic table
![Chemical Poems: Ununennium](https://www.chemistryviews.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/common/images/thumbnails/source/149a8f56878.jpg)
Poems based on the natural properties of each of the elements of the periodic table
![100th Birthday: Larned B. Asprey](https://www.chemistryviews.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/common/images/thumbnails/source/1692f26b955.jpg)
Pioneer of actinide and fluoride chemistry and Manhattan Project worker
![75th Anniversary: Discovery of Plutonium](https://www.chemistryviews.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/common/images/thumbnails/source/15135119564a.jpg)
Element 94 was first produced and isolated at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory in 1940
![First Complex With a Plutonium Carbon Double Bond](https://www.chemistryviews.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/202402_1stPuCDoubleBond-125x94.png)
Preparation of a diphosphoniomethanide-Pu complex along with two diphosphonioalkylidene-Pu complexes
![The Molecular Marvels of Captain America](https://www.chemistryviews.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/common/images/thumbnails/source/1673635654d.jpg)
The hypothetical (bio-)chemistry behind the transformation of a frail soldier into a comic book superhero