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flerovium
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Flerovium
Flerovium
is a
superheavy
artificial
chemical element
with symbol
Fl
and
atomic number
114. It is an extremely
radioactive
synthetic element
. The element is named after the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions of the
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
in
Dubna
, Russia, where the element was discovered in 1998. The name of the laboratory, in turn, honours the Russian physicist
Georgy Flyorov
(
Флёров
in
Cyrillic
, hence the transliteration of "
yo
" to "e"). The name was adopted by
IUPAC
on 30 May 2012.
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