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Pure strip of lead refined Flerovium
in a laboratory Fl
This machine
produces flerovium
This pure form by smashing The Carbon Group
of the metal has
a dull grey colour. together atoms
State: Solid of calcium and
114 114 175 Discovery: 1999
plutonium.
These pale crystals
on the galena are
a calcium mineral. Particle accelerator at Joint Institute
for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
Flerovium takes
its name from the
Russian scientist
Georgy Flerov. He
Flashings,
or “lead sheets”, founded the Joint
cover exposed Institute for Nuclear
corners on roofs
to make them Research in Dubna,
waterproof.
Russia, where this
element was first
produced in a particle
Flashings
accelerator (a machine
in which atoms are
because it absorbs radiation. It is smashed together).
also used in weights for diving, car Flerovium is highly
batteries, and bendy “flashings” radioactive and its
for sealing roofs. Lead fell out of atoms last for only
favour because it turned out to a few seconds before
be poisonous. Georgy Flerov breaking apart. 151
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