{"id":194086,"date":"2024-08-05T20:24:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T01:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/breaking-scientists-on-verge-of-creating-heaviest-element-ever"},"modified":"2024-08-05T20:24:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T01:24:21","slug":"breaking-scientists-on-verge-of-creating-heaviest-element-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/breaking-scientists-on-verge-of-creating-heaviest-element-ever","title":{"rendered":"Breaking! Scientists On Verge of Creating Heaviest Element Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4K4MfjsrIUE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a feat of modern-day alchemy, scientists have used a beam of vaporized titanium to create one of the heaviest elements on Earth \u2013 and they think this new method could pave the way to even heftier horizons.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time the new technique \u2013 in which a hunk of the rare isotope titanium-50 is heated to almost 1,650 \u00b0C (3000 \u00b0F) to release ions that are beamed at another element \u2013 has successfully produced a superheavy element, livermorium.<\/p>\n<p>Livermorium was first synthesized back in 2000, and it\u2019s not the heaviest element humans have created (that would be oganesson, atomic number 118).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a feat of modern-day alchemy, scientists have used a beam of vaporized titanium to create one of the heaviest elements on Earth \u2013 and they think this new method could pave the way to even heftier horizons. This is the first time the new technique \u2013 in which a hunk of the rare isotope [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}