Ununpentium, the Element With No Name

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The heaviest element that can be found in nature is uranium, but Ununpentium, named after the Latin number for its atomic mass of 115, is significantly heavier due to its creation using nuclear fusion. The element was discovered in 2003 by a Russian scientists in Dubna, but was only recognized to be an element in 2015. It took so long to be an official element due to the law requiring two different labs to conduct and confirm the experiment before the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry could even consider it. 

The researchers who created this element used americium, a highly unstable and radioactive element and calcium to create it. They fired light calcium elements at the americium atoms for months on end, with them mainly bouncing off. Occasionally however the calcium atoms would stick to the unstable element creating a short lived atom with a large amount of atoms in the nucleus, the core of element 115. 

Ununpentium doesn't have any actual use for any advancements in technology or science but it does help us further understand the universe. Element 115 is incredibly unstable and only lasts a few seconds at most but expanding on our knowledge of elements in the universe gives us an understanding of what holds the universe together. Finding new elements isn't really in an effort to design flying cars or cure cancer, but more of a showing for human curiosity.

 https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/08/130828-science-chemistry-115-element-ununpentium-periodic-table/

https://www.matrixdisclosure.com/element-115-ununpentium-moscovium/
















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