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61-739: (Redirected from Ube ) [REDACTED] Look up ube in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. UBE or Ube may refer to: Ube ( Dioscorea alata ), also known as the purple yam, a species of edible yams Ube halaya , a Philippine dessert made from boiled and mashed purple yam Ube, Yamaguchi , a city in Japan Ube Industries , chemical company Ubiquitin-activating enzyme Unbiennium , an undiscovered superactinide chemical element Uniform Bar Examination Unilateral Biportal Endoscopy Union bound estimate,
122-594: A group that the authors do not think is chemically most analogous. Nefedov [ ru ] , Trzhaskovskaya, and Yarzhemskii carried out calculations up to 164 (results published in 2006). They considered elements 158 through 164 to be homologues of groups 4 through 10, and not 6 through 12, noting similarities of electron configurations to the period 5 transition metals (e.g. element 159 7d 9s vs Nb 4d 5s , element 160 7d 9s vs Mo 4d 5s , element 162 7d 9s vs Ru 4d 5s , element 163 7d 9s vs Rh 4d 5s , element 164 7d 9s vs Pd 4d 5s ). They thus agree with Fricke et al. on
183-456: A high-intensity vanadium beam. The experiment began at a cyclotron while RIKEN upgraded its linear accelerators; the upgrade was completed in 2020. Bombardment may be continued with both machines until the first event is observed; the experiment is currently running intermittently for at least 100 days per year. The RIKEN team's efforts are being financed by the Emperor of Japan . The team at
244-474: A limit of 1.6 pb for the cross section at the energy provided. The GSI repeated the experiment with higher sensitivity in three separate runs in April–May 2007, January–March 2008, and September–October 2008, all with negative results, reaching a cross section limit of 90 fb. In June–July 2010, and again in 2011, after upgrading their equipment to allow the use of more radioactive targets, scientists at
305-417: A limiting cross section of 300 nb . Later calculations suggest that the cross section of the 3n reaction (which would result in 119 and three neutrons as products) would actually be six hundred thousand times lower than this upper bound, at 0.5 pb. From April to September 2012, an attempt to synthesize the isotopes 119 and 119 was made by bombarding a target of berkelium -249 with titanium -50 at
366-603: A limiting cross section of 70 fb. The predicted actual cross section is around 40 fb, which is at the limits of current technology. The team at RIKEN in Wakō , Japan began bombarding curium -248 targets with a vanadium -51 beam in January 2018 to search for element 119. Curium was chosen as a target, rather than heavier berkelium or californium, as these heavier targets are difficult to prepare. The Cm targets were provided by Oak Ridge National Laboratory . RIKEN developed
427-442: A new g-block and superactinide series beginning at element 121, raising the number of elements in period 8 compared to known periods. These early calculations failed to consider relativistic effects that break down periodic trends and render simple extrapolation impossible, however. In 1971, Fricke calculated the periodic table up to Z = 172, and discovered that some elements indeed had different properties that break
488-560: A periodic table of elements based on electron orbitals therefore breaks down at this point. On the other hand, a more rigorous analysis calculates the analogous limit to be Z ≈ 168–172 where the 1s subshell dives into the Dirac sea , and that it is instead not neutral atoms that cannot exist beyond this point, but bare nuclei, thus posing no obstacle to the further extension of the periodic system. Atoms beyond this critical atomic number are called supercritical atoms. Elements beyond
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671-451: A result of overlapping orbitals; this is caused by the increasing role of relativistic effects in heavy elements (They describe chemical properties up to element 184, but only draw a table to element 172.) Fricke et al.'s format is more focused on formal electron configurations than likely chemical behaviour. They place elements 156–164 in groups 4–12 because formally their configurations should be 7d through 7d . However, they differ from
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#1732790822881732-424: A strong stabilizing effect at Z = 124 and points to the next proton shell at Z > 120, not at Z = 114 as previously thought. A compound nucleus is a loose combination of nucleons that have not arranged themselves into nuclear shells yet. It has no internal structure and is held together only by the collision forces between the target and projectile nuclei. It is estimated that it requires around 10 s for
793-470: A target is difficult.) Nevertheless, the necessary change from the "silver bullet" Ca to Ti divides the expected yield of element 119 by about twenty, as the yield is strongly dependent on the asymmetry of the fusion reaction. Due to the predicted short half-lives, the GSI team used new "fast" electronics capable of registering decay events within microseconds. No atoms of element 119 were identified, implying
854-594: A target of uranium-238 with copper -65 ions at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt , Germany: No atoms were identified. The first attempts to synthesize element 122 (unbibium) were performed in 1972 by Flerov et al. at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), using the heavy-ion induced hot fusion reactions: These experiments were motivated by early predictions on
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1037-418: A very similar experiment with much higher sensitivity: These results indicate that the synthesis of such heavier elements remains a significant challenge and further improvements of beam intensity and experimental efficiency is required. The sensitivity should be increased to 1 fb in the future for better quality results. Another unsuccessful attempt to synthesize element 122 was carried out in 1978 at
1098-421: Is 172. In 2023 Smits, Düllmann, Indelicato, Nazarewicz, and Schwerdtfeger made another attempt to place elements from 119 to 170 in the periodic table based on their electron configurations. The configurations of a few elements (121–124 and 168) did not allow them to be placed unambiguously. Element 145 appears twice, some places have double occupancy, and others are empty. Attempts have been made to synthesise
1159-549: Is complete, or if there is a period 9. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) defines an element to exist if its lifetime is longer than 10 seconds (0.01 picoseconds, or 10 femtoseconds), which is the time it takes for the nucleus to form an electron cloud . As early as 1940, it was noted that a simplistic interpretation of the relativistic Dirac equation runs into problems with electron orbitals at Z > 1/α ≈ 137, suggesting that neutral atoms cannot exist beyond element 137, and that
1220-463: Is currently no consensus on the placement of elements beyond atomic number 120 in the periodic table. All hypothetical elements are given an International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) systematic element name , for use until the element has been discovered, confirmed, and an official name is approved. These names are typically not used in the literature, and the elements are instead referred to by their atomic numbers; hence, element 164
1281-425: Is hypothesized to be within an island of stability that is resistant to fission but not to alpha decay. Other islands of stability beyond the known elements may also be possible, including one theorised around element 164, though the extent of stabilizing effects from closed nuclear shells is uncertain. It is not clear how many elements beyond the expected island of stability are physically possible, whether period 8
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#17327908228811342-507: Is not marked. Pekka Pyykkö used computer modeling to calculate the positions of elements up to Z = 172 and their possible chemical properties in an article published in 2011. He reproduced the orbital order of Fricke et al., and proposed a refinement of their table by formally assigning slots to elements 121–164 based on ionic configurations. In order to bookkeep the electrons, Pyykkö places some elements out of order: thus 139 and 140 are placed in groups 13 and 14 to reflect that
1403-469: Is usually not called "unhexquadium" or "Uhq" (the systematic name and symbol), but rather "element 164" with symbol "164", "(164)", or "E164". At element 118, the orbitals 1s, 2s, 2p, 3s, 3p, 3d, 4s, 4p, 4d, 4f, 5s, 5p, 5d, 5f, 6s, 6p, 6d, 7s and 7p are assumed to be filled, with the remaining orbitals unfilled. A simple extrapolation from the Aufbau principle would predict the eighth row to fill orbitals in
1464-869: The Cf+ Ti reaction in their new facility. However, the Cf target would have had to be made by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States, and after the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, collaboration between the JINR and other institutes completely ceased due to sanctions. Consequently, the JINR now plans to try the Cm+ Cr reaction instead. A preparatory experiment for
1525-533: The Earth's core , in iron meteorites , or in the ice caps of Greenland where they had been locked up from their supposed cosmic origin. By 1955, these elements were called superheavy elements. The first predictions on properties of undiscovered superheavy elements were made in 1957, when the concept of nuclear shells was first explored and an island of stability was theorized to exist around element 126. In 1967, more rigorous calculations were performed, and
1586-518: The GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt , Germany. Based on the theoretically predicted cross section, it was expected that an ununennium atom would be synthesized within five months of the beginning of the experiment. Moreover, as berkelium-249 decays to californium -249 (the next element) with a short half-life of 327 days, this allowed elements 119 and 120 to be searched for simultaneously. The experiment
1647-531: The Pu+ Ti reaction was tested, successfully creating two atoms of Lv in 2024. Since this was successful, an attempt to make element 120 in the Cf+ Ti reaction is planned to begin in 2025. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), which previously collaborated with the JINR, will collaborate with the LBNL on this project. The synthesis of element 121 (unbiunium) was first attempted in 1977 by bombarding
1708-400: The actinides were first proposed to exist as early as 1895, when Danish chemist Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen predicted that thorium and uranium formed part of a 32-element period which would end at a chemically inactive element with atomic weight 292 (not far from the 294 for the only known isotope of oganesson ). In 1913, Swedish physicist Johannes Rydberg similarly predicted that
1769-519: The 8p 1/2 shell needs to fill, and he distinguishes separate 5g, 8p 1/2 , and 6f series. Fricke et al. and Nefedov et al. do not attempt to break up these series. Computational chemist Andrey Kulsha has suggested two forms of the extended periodic table up to 172 that build on and refine Nefedov et al.'s versions up to 164 with reference to Pyykkö's calculations. Based on their likely chemical properties, elements 157–172 are placed by both forms as eighth-period congeners of yttrium through xenon in
1830-513: The GSI Helmholtz Center, where a natural erbium target was bombarded with xenon-136 ions: In particular, the reaction between Er and Xe was expected to yield alpha-emitters with half-lives of microseconds that would decay down to isotopes of flerovium with half-lives perhaps increasing up to several hours, as flerovium is predicted to lie near the center of the island of stability . After twelve hours of irradiation, nothing
1891-444: The GSI attempted the more asymmetrical fusion reaction: It was expected that the change in reaction would quintuple the probability of synthesizing element 120, as the yield of such reactions is strongly dependent on their asymmetry. Three correlated signals were observed that matched the predicted alpha decay energies of 120 and its daughter Og, as well as the experimentally known decay energy of its granddaughter Lv . However,
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1952-688: The JINR plans to attempt synthesis of element 119 in the future, probably using the Am + Cr reaction, but a precise timeframe has not been publicly released. Following their success in obtaining oganesson by the reaction between Cf and Ca in 2006, the team at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna started similar experiments in March–April 2007, in hope of creating element 120 (unbinilium) from nuclei of Fe and Pu . Isotopes of unbinilium are predicted to have alpha decay half-lives of
2013-420: The addition of a 5g subshell into the core, as according to Pyykkö's calculations of oxidation states, they should, respectively, mimic lanthanides and actinides. In his second suggestion (2016), elements 121–142 form a g-block (as they have 5g activity), while elements 143–156 form an f-block placed under actinium through nobelium. Thus, period 8 emerges with 54 elements, and the next noble element after 118
2074-429: The chemically most analogous groups, but differ from them in that Nefedov et al. actually place elements in the chemically most analogous groups. Rg and Cn are given an asterisk to reflect differing configurations from Au and Hg (in the original publication they are drawn as being displaced in the third dimension). In fact Cn probably has an analogous configuration to Hg, and the difference in configuration between Pt and Ds
2135-461: The established pattern, and a 2010 calculation by Pekka Pyykkö also noted that several elements might behave differently than expected. It is unknown how far the periodic table might extend beyond the known 118 elements, as heavier elements are predicted to be increasingly unstable. Glenn T. Seaborg suggested that practically speaking, the end of the periodic table might come as early as around Z = 120 due to nuclear instability. There
2196-427: The existence of an island of stability at N = 184 and Z > 120. No atoms were detected and a yield limit of 5 nb (5,000 pb ) was measured. Current results (see flerovium ) have shown that the sensitivity of these experiments were too low by at least 3 orders of magnitude. In 2000, the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research performed
2257-455: The fifth period; this extends Nefedov et al.'s placement of 157–164 under yttrium through palladium, and agrees with the chemical analogies given by Fricke et al. Kulsha suggested two ways to deal with elements 121–156, that lack precise analogues among earlier elements. In his first form (2011, after Pyykkö's paper was published), elements 121–138 and 139–156 are placed as two separate rows (together called "ultransition elements"), related by
2318-492: The free dictionary. UBE or Ube may refer to: Ube ( Dioscorea alata ), also known as the purple yam, a species of edible yams Ube halaya , a Philippine dessert made from boiled and mashed purple yam Ube, Yamaguchi , a city in Japan Ube Industries , chemical company Ubiquitin-activating enzyme Unbiennium , an undiscovered superactinide chemical element Uniform Bar Examination Unilateral Biportal Endoscopy Union bound estimate,
2379-406: The heaviest successfully synthesized element being oganesson in 2002 and the most recent discovery being that of tennessine in 2010. As some superheavy elements were predicted to lie beyond the seven-period periodic table, an additional eighth period containing these elements was first proposed by Glenn T. Seaborg in 1969. This model continued the pattern in established elements and introduced
2440-478: The highest atomic number known is oganesson ( Z = 118), which completes the seventh period (row) in the periodic table . All elements in the eighth period and beyond thus remain purely hypothetical. Elements beyond 118 will be placed in additional periods when discovered, laid out (as with the existing periods) to illustrate periodically recurring trends in the properties of the elements. Any additional periods are expected to contain more elements than
2501-527: The island of stability was theorized to be centered at the then-undiscovered flerovium (element 114); this and other subsequent studies motivated many researchers to search for superheavy elements in nature or attempt to synthesize them at accelerators. Many searches for superheavy elements were conducted in the 1970s, all with negative results. As of April 2022 , synthesis has been attempted for every element up to and including unbiseptium ( Z = 127), except unbitrium ( Z = 123), with
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2562-522: The lifetimes of these possible decays were much longer than expected, and the results could not be confirmed. In August–October 2011, a different team at the GSI using the TASCA facility tried a new, even more asymmetrical reaction: This was also tried unsuccessfully the next year during the aforementioned attempt to make element 119 in the Bk+ Ti reaction, as Bk decays to Cf. Because of its asymmetry,
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2684-479: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=UBE&oldid=1249476567 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Unbiennium An extended periodic table theorizes about chemical elements beyond those currently known and proven. The element with
2745-421: The next noble gas after radon would have atomic number 118, and purely formally derived even heavier congeners of radon at Z = 168, 218, 290, 362, and 460, exactly where the Aufbau principle would predict them to be. In 1922, Niels Bohr predicted the electronic structure of this next noble gas at Z = 118, and suggested that the reason why elements beyond uranium were not seen in nature
2806-567: The next spherical proton shell. This is because having complete nuclear shells (or, equivalently, having a magic number of protons or neutrons ) would confer more stability on the nuclei of such superheavy elements, thus moving closer to the island of stability . In 2006, with full results published in 2008, the team provided results from a reaction involving the bombardment of a natural germanium target with uranium ions: The team reported that they had been able to identify compound nuclei fissioning with half-lives > 10 s. This result suggests
2867-524: The orbital approximation in quantum mechanical descriptions of atomic structure, the g-block would correspond to elements with partially filled g-orbitals, but spin–orbit coupling effects reduce the validity of the orbital approximation substantially for elements of high atomic number. Seaborg's version of the extended period had the heavier elements following the pattern set by lighter elements, as it did not take into account relativistic effects . Models that take relativistic effects into account predict that
2928-477: The order 8s, 5g, 6f, 7d, 8p; but after element 120, the proximity of the electron shells makes placement in a simple table problematic. Not all models show the higher elements following the pattern established by lighter elements. Burkhard Fricke et al., who carried out calculations up to element 184 in an article published in 1971, also found some elements to be displaced from the Madelung energy-ordering rule as
2989-487: The order of microseconds . Initial analysis revealed that no atoms of element 120 were produced, providing a limit of 400 fb for the cross section at the energy studied. The Russian team planned to upgrade their facilities before attempting the reaction again. In April 2007, the team at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt , Germany, attempted to create element 120 using uranium -238 and nickel -64: No atoms were detected, providing
3050-610: The pattern will be broken. Pekka Pyykkö and Burkhard Fricke used computer modeling to calculate the positions of elements up to Z = 172, and found that several were displaced from the Madelung rule . As a result of uncertainty and variability in predictions of chemical and physical properties of elements beyond 120, there is currently no consensus on their placement in the extended periodic table. Elements in this region are likely to be highly unstable with respect to radioactive decay and undergo alpha decay or spontaneous fission with extremely short half-lives , though element 126
3111-422: The period 8 elements up to unbiseptium, except unbitrium. All such attempts have been unsuccessful. An attempt to synthesise ununennium, the first period 8 element, is ongoing as of 2024 . The synthesis of element 119 ( ununennium ) was first attempted in 1985 by bombarding a target of einsteinium-254 with calcium-48 ions at the superHILAC accelerator at Berkeley, California: No atoms were identified, leading to
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#17327908228813172-486: The previous d-elements in that the 8s shell is not available for chemical bonding: instead, the 9s shell is. Thus element 164 with 7d 9s is noted by Fricke et al. to be analogous to palladium with 4d 5s , and they consider elements 157–172 to have chemical analogies to groups 3–18 (though they are ambivalent on whether elements 165 and 166 are more like group 1 and 2 elements or more like group 11 and 12 elements, respectively). Thus, elements 157–164 are placed in their table in
3233-418: The reaction between Cf and Ti was predicted to be the most favorable practical reaction for synthesizing unbinilium, although it is also somewhat cold. No unbinilium atoms were identified, implying a limiting cross-section of 200 fb. Jens Volker Kratz predicted the actual maximum cross-section for producing element 120 by any of these reactions to be around 0.1 fb; in comparison, the world record for
3294-582: The research investigating whether superheavy elements could potentially be naturally occurring. Several experiments studying the fission characteristics of various superheavy compound nuclei such as 122* were performed between 2000 and 2004 at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions . Two nuclear reactions were used, namely Cm + Fe and Pu + Ni. The results reveal how superheavy nuclei fission predominantly by expelling closed shell nuclei such as Sn ( Z = 50, N = 82). It
3355-492: The seventh period, as they are calculated to have an additional so-called g-block , containing at least 18 elements with partially filled g- orbitals in each period. An eight-period table containing this block was suggested by Glenn T. Seaborg in 1969. The first element of the g-block may have atomic number 121, and thus would have the systematic name unbiunium . Despite many searches, no elements in this region have been synthesized or discovered in nature. According to
3416-427: The smallest cross section of a successful reaction was 30 fb for the reaction Bi( Zn,n) Nh , and Kratz predicted a maximum cross-section of 20 fb for producing the neighbouring element 119. If these predictions are accurate, then synthesizing element 119 would be at the limits of current technology, and synthesizing element 120 would require new methods. In May 2021, the JINR announced plans to investigate
3477-621: The use of Cr projectiles was conducted in late 2023, successfully synthesising Lv in the U+ Cr reaction, and the hope is for experiments to synthesise element 120 to begin by 2025. Starting from 2022, plans have also been made to use 88-inch cyclotron in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in Berkeley , California , United States to attempt to make new elements using Ti projectiles. First,
3538-436: Was also found that the yield for the fusion-fission pathway was similar between Ca and Fe projectiles, suggesting a possible future use of Fe projectiles in superheavy element formation. Scientists at GANIL (Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds) attempted to measure the direct and delayed fission of compound nuclei of elements with Z = 114, 120, and 124 in order to probe shell effects in this region and to pinpoint
3599-540: Was because they were too unstable. The German physicist and engineer Richard Swinne published a review paper in 1926 containing predictions on the transuranic elements (he may have coined the term) in which he anticipated modern predictions of an island of stability : he first hypothesised in 1914 that half-lives should not decrease strictly with atomic number, but suggested instead that there might be some longer-lived elements at Z = 98–102 and Z = 108–110, and speculated that such elements might exist in
3660-419: Was found in this reaction. Following a similar unsuccessful attempt to synthesize element 121 from U and Cu, it was concluded that half-lives of superheavy nuclei must be less than one microsecond or the cross sections are very small. More recent research into synthesis of superheavy elements suggests that both conclusions are true. The two attempts in the 1970s to synthesize element 122 were both propelled by
3721-515: Was originally planned to continue to November 2012, but was stopped early to make use of the Bk target to confirm the synthesis of tennessine (thus changing the projectiles to Ca). This reaction between Bk and Ti was predicted to be the most favorable practical reaction for formation of element 119, as it is rather asymmetrical, though also somewhat cold. (The reaction between Es and Ca would be superior, but preparing milligram quantities of Es for
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