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State: Solid The Oxygen Group
Discovery: 2000

Livermorium
has been
named
after this
laboratory.

Heavy ion cyclotron,
Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, USA

When livermorium atoms were first with material provided by the Lawrence
produced in 2000, they broke apart in Livermore National Laboratory in California,
a fraction of a second. The first successful USA. This highly radioactive element was
attempt to create atoms of this element was produced by firing calcium atoms at curium
made at the Joint Institute of Nuclear atoms in a particle accelerator (a machine
Research at Dubna, Russia. The team worked in which atoms are smashed together). 175

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