Sentence examples for unnilbium from inspiring English sources

This was first made in 1996, but has still not received an official name (it goes under the ugly moniker of ununbium).

All that remained was to see whether this energy release more resembled that of gold reacting with mercury or with radon.Mendeleev 1: Einstein 0By a convenient fluke, the process that produces ununbium also generates radon, while adding neodymium yields mercury, too, so Dr Eichler's comparisons were to hand.

But some relativistic calculations suggested it might actually behave like a different element, the inert (and non-metallic) gas, radon.Unfortunately for chemists, ununbium can be made only a few atoms at a time (by bombarding plutonium atoms with calcium atoms), and those atoms that are made have a half-life of a mere four seconds.

With the aid of colleagues in Dubna, he managed to get two atoms of ununbium to stick to a sheet of gold.

Although he cannot be sure, there is a good chance that if you could make ununbium in large quantities, it would not only be metallic, but would also be a gas at room temperature.

It's currently known as ununbium or simply element 112, but now the scientists who discovered it have proposed a name: copernicium.

Originally known as ununbium, this element was named in honour of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, who discovered that the Earth orbits the Sun.

The upshot is that the ununbium/gold reaction resembled that with mercury and not that with radon.