Superheavy Elements: What Are They & What Benefits/Drawbacks?

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Superheavy elements, starting from element 104 (Rutherfordium), are all radioactive with very short half-lives, making them unstable and impractical for most applications. They are costly to produce and lack significant practical uses due to their high radioactivity. The actinide series, which includes these elements, features isotopes like Th-232 and U-238 that have long half-lives, unlike the superheavy elements. Misuse of superheavy elements can lead to radiation exposure due to their instability. Overall, the primary drawbacks of superheavy elements are their radioactivity, short lifespan, and high production costs.
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What r the superheavy elements?
what do they do?any advantage or disadvantage?(please be specific)
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ulech21 said:
What r the superheavy elements?
what do they do?any advantage or disadvantage?(please be specific)
thnx!
Has one tried searching for articles on superheavy elements?

Is one familiar with the actinide series? All are radioactive, although Th-232 and U-238 have very long half-lives.

The superheavy elments begin with element 104 (Rutherfordium), and all are radioactive with very short half-lives. There is not practical use for them since they are high radioactive, radiologically unstable (very short half-lives), and are very expensive.

Here is a good article on superheavy elements -
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/19751

A European website for transfermium elements -
http://www.transfermium.net/

Here is a wikipedia article on transactinides (or IUPAC would prefer transactinoids), which are also known as superheavy elements - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactinide_element
 
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thnx
 
Astronuc said:
Has one tried searching for articles on superheavy elements?

Is one familiar with the actinide series?
Does one put the lotion on its skin? :biggrin:
 
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whaz the result after misusing the superheavy elements?
 
ulech21 said:
whaz the result after misusing the superheavy elements?
Can you be more specific? Do you mean are they radioactive? Yes. Of course, they only last minutes to microseconds, so you'd better hurry.
 
r there any disadvantage about superheavy elements??
 

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