Gavin Wharton
News
Article 1, Draft 1
WIP: The Seventh Row is Set!
On January 3rd, 2016, four brand new radioactive elements were added to the period
table, rendering all chemistry textbooks out of date, and the seventh row of the table complete.
Scientists from America, Russia, and Japan have been conducting countless experiments and
recording pages of data to discover the ways in which these products can be applied to physics.
The first of the four elements, under the temporary name of Ununtrium (Uut) and/or EkaThallium, was created in Dubna, Russia at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in 2003, but
Kosuke Morita’s group at RIKEN Nishina Center in Japan was given credit for the discovery..
The team fired a beam of Zinc-70 at an object created of Bismuth-209. Though their more
detailed evidence was in 2012, they claimed to have created it previously in 2004.
Ununtrium is a P-Block element in the Boron group, therefore has properties similar to
aluminum and indium. However, unlike most P-Block elements, Ununtrium shows transition
metal-like characteristics, and its most stable isotope has a half-life of about twenty seconds.
Ununpentium was discovered alongside Ununseptium during collaborations between
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the U.S.,
and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Russia. Both are highly radioactive, and extremely
“heavy.”
Ununpentium (Uup), or Eka-Bismuth is claimed to be “the heaviest Pnictogen (nitrogen
Family),” though this has yet to be confirmed. It’s most stable isotope has a half life of around
220 milliseconds, making it hard to physically see and come in prolonged contact with.
Ununseptium (Uus), or Eka-Astatine, is the second heaviest element in the 7th row of the
periodic table, and only fifteen atoms of the element have ever been recorded: six when it was
first created in 2010, seven in 2012, and two in 2014 when America and Germany conducted a
scientific collaboration.
The final to be added to the row, Ununoctium (Uuo), or Eka-Radon, is the only synthetic
member of its group, and has the highest atomic number and mass of all elements known to man.
Because of its high mass, it is highly unstable, which is why only three (possibly four) atoms of
its isotope have every been detected. Though Ununoctium is a member of group 18, there is a
possibility of it’s quality not being at noble gas, unlike the other elements of that group. It was
formerly known and thought to be gas under proper conditions, though there are theories about it
being at solid.
[Interview with Mrs.Glassmen will be right here]
The periodic table hasn’t been updated in five years, since Flerovium (Fl) and
Livermorium (Lv) were added, and these new discoveries prove that humanity has a long road
ahead of it paved with endless possibilities and creations.
It won’t be down here, but I’d like to briefly talk about the institutions that created and
found these elements, and what experiment they were conducting when these elements were
discovered.
Gavin,
I really like the fact that you’ve done so much research! I don’t really have line edits for you
because it was nearly perfect. To be honest, I’m so late on these drafts I’m just trying to get my
edits up and give you grade lol. I’m so sorry!!!  I’m never THIS late on my drafts, I didn’t know
they were due Friday. Anyways, this article is at a perfect length. I will look over it again once I
get all my missing second drafts in. All you really need is interviews and to clean some stuff up.
Good job, and once again I apologize for the lateness.
Kamiyah, 10/10