Imagine spending decades mastering chemistry, building particle accelerators worth billions, and then your crowning achievement exists for 0.000002 seconds before vanishing forever. Yet chemists are still like "WE NEED TO NAME IT!" The superheavy elements in the periodic table are basically chemical ghosts - they show up, wave hello, and disintegrate before anyone can even offer them a cup of coffee. The naming rights are basically for an element's obituary rather than its biography. "Here lies Flerovium, it existed for a fraction of a heartbeat, but we're pretty sure it would have had fascinating electron configurations if it stuck around long enough for us to check."
The Fleeting Glory Of Superheavy Elements
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