tennessine

ten·nes·sine

(tĕn′ə-sēn′)

n. Symbol Ts

An artificially produced radioactive element with atomic number 117 whose most stable isotopes have a mass number of 293 and 294, with the lighter, more stable isotope having a half-life of less than 90 milliseconds.

[Tenness(ee) + -ine (so called because members of the team involved in its synthesis were associated with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory; the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; and Vanderbilt University, all in Tennessee).]

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Phelps purified the berkelium-249 that was used in the discovery and identification of Tennessine (element 117), named after the location of the lab where she works.

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In 2016, four new elements were added to it: nihonium, moscovium, tennessine, and oganesson.

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They were, Curium - (Marie & Pierre Curie); Californium - (first produced in California); Einsteinium - (Albert); Fermium - (Enrico Fermi, Physicist); Mendelevium - (Dmitri Mendeleev); Bohrium - (Neils Bohr, Atomic Physicist); Dubnium - (named after a Russian Town of Dubnia); Tennessine - (Discovered in the National Laboratory of Tennessee).