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Uses 113

Nh Nihonium
Heart function scan

State: Solid The Boron Group
113 113 183 Discovery: 2004

Blood injected with a
thallium compound shows
up on a patient’s heart scan.

Spectacles

These thin
Until the lenses contain Kozuka Morita (left), with a visiting official at the
strong, thallium- RIKEN Nuclear Research Centre, Wako, Japan
1970s, thallium infused glass.
salts were commonly Nihonium was named after the Japanese word
used as ant nihon, which means Japan. A metallic element,
poison. nihonium was first detected in 2003 by teams studying
the artificial element moscovium, which has the
atomic number of 115. They noticed that atoms
of moscovium broke apart after only a few seconds
toxic and has to be handled with care into atoms of an element with an atomic number of
when used. A chlorine compound of 113. In 2004, Kozuka Morita and a team of scientists
thallium is used in scans to study a at the RIKEN Nuclear Research Centre in Japan
patient’s blood circulation. Thallium isolated this element in a different way: they fused
oxide also helps make glass stronger bismuth and zinc atoms together.
for use in spectacles and cameras. 139

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