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Unbihexium
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| Name, Symbol, Number | Unbihexium, Ubh, 126 | ||||
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| Group, Period, Block | , 8, g | ||||
| Appearance | unknown | ||||
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| State of matter | presumably a solid | ||||
Unbihexium is an unsynthesized chemical element with atomic number 126 and symbol Ubh, of interest because it is in the hypothesized island of stability.
Calculating by the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov Method using the non-relativistic Skyrme energy density, it could be possibly the most stable, in a "well" of stability.
The name unbihexium is a temporary IUPAC systematic element name.
History
The name unbihexium is used as a placeholder, such as in scientific articles about the search for element 126. Transuranic elements beyond plutonium are always artificially produced, and usually end up being named for a scientist or the location of a laboratory that does work in atomic physics.
An Action Comics story by John Byrne established the fictional Kryptonite as element 126 on the periodic table of elements.
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