Flerovium - Wikiparency

# Flerovium ## 🧊 Flerovium · 3D (three.js) <iframe src="https://wikitube-elements.netlify.app/?el=Fl&embed=1" width="100%" height="620" frameborder="0" style="border:0;border-radius:12px;overflow:hidden" allowfullscreen loading="lazy" title="The Elements 3D microsim - Flerovium"></iframe> *Flerovium in the live three.js Elements explorer — drag to orbit the atom, click any tile to compare, slide the temperature.* · [▶ open full](https://wikitube-elements.netlify.app/?el=Fl)  !Flerovium plate.svg *Plate 114 of 118 - animated Bohr shells, stylized per Madelung filling; engraving style per house Arcanity kit.* ## Microsim To Do *Claimable rows, house pattern. Real Wikipedia articles only.* - Island of stability - the frontier region where Flerovium and its superheavy neighbors reside - Plutonium-244 - target nucleus in Flerovium synthesis - Calcium-48 - accelerated projectile creating Flerovium - Nuclear shell model - explains why Flerovium survives longer than expected ## Links (Wikipedia order)  `Aaldert_Wapstra` · `Acetate` · `Actinide` · [[Actinium]] · `Adsorption` · `Albert_Ghiorso` · `Alkali_metal` · `Alkaline_earth_metal` · [[Alpha_decay]] · [[Aluminium]] · [[Americium]] · `Angstrom` · [[Antimony]] · [[Argon]] · [[Arsenic]] · [[Astatine]] · `Atomic_Data_and_Nuclear_Data_Tables` · `Atomic_nucleus` · `Atomic_number` · `Atomic_radius` · `Australian_National_University` · `Azimuthal_quantum_number` · `Band_gap` · [[Barium]] · [[Berkelium]] · [[Beryllium]] · [[Beta_decay]] · [[Bismuth]] · `Block_(periodic_table)` · `Bloomberg_Businessweek` · [[Bohrium]] · [[Boiling_point]] · [[Boron]] · `Boron_group` · [[Bromine]] · `CAS_Registry_Number` 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Infobox grounded in [Wikipedia: List of chemical elements](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_elements), fetched 2026-07-08. Full article: [Wikipedia: Flerovium](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flerovium).  ## Key facts (infobox) | | | |---|---| | Symbol - Z | Fl - 114 | | Group - Period - Block | 14 - 7 - p-block | | Atomic weight (Da) | [289] | | Density (g/cm3) | (11.4) | | Melting - Boiling (K) | (284) - - | | Electronegativity (Pauling) | - | | Crustal abundance (mg/kg) | - | | Origin | synthetic | | Phase (STP) | unknown | | Name origin | Georgy Flyorov (Flerov Laboratory, JINR) | *Bracketed weights are the mass number of the most stable isotope; values in parentheses are predictions (per the source table).* ## Story Flerovium was first synthesized in 1999 at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, through the bombardment of plutonium-244 with calcium-48 ions. The element is named for Georgy Flyorov (also transliterated as Flerov), the Soviet physicist who co-founded the Flerov Laboratory and pioneered the Soviet superheavy element synthesis program. Fl-289 has a half-life of approximately 2.65 hours [model-prior - verify], one of the longer-lived superheavy elements. Flerovium occupies group 14 (the carbon group), though relativistic effects are expected to make it behave unlike lead or tin [model-prior - verify]. Some theoretical models predict it might show noble-gas-like properties due to relativistic orbital effects [model-prior - verify]. Flerovium is often cited as part of the island of stability's outer edge—nuclei that survive longer than their neighbors due to shell-closure effects in nuclear physics. The naming returns the honor to the Soviet tradition in superheavy element chemistry. Flyorov and the Flerov Laboratory were architects of the synthesis frontier; naming this element for him completes the recognition of the international efforts that made elements Z 100-118 possible. Flerovium stands at the threshold of the island of stability, the frontier realm where nuclear magic numbers and relativistic effects create an oasis of half-lives measurable in hours. ## Corpus connections - R.E.A.C.T.I.O.N. - the Chemistry hub - Centers of Excellence Portal - [[Technetium|Technetium - the element made before found]] - the canon's patron - and Technitium, the School - [Georgy Flyorov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Flyorov) - Soviet nuclear physicist and founder of the superheavy element synthesis program ## Vocational-Technical Semiotics The element speaks the canon's shared signs: the periodic table cell (Fl, group 14, period 7), isotope notation, and hazard pictograms ghs where handling demands it. ## Sources Infobox: [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_elements](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_elements) (fetched 2026-07-08); etymology per the same table's notes. Story sources to be added at enrichment. ## Navigation - Canon: Elements Canon index - neighbors by Z: [[Nihonium|Nihonium (113)]] - [[Moscovium|Moscovium (115)]] - R.E.A.C.T.I.O.N. - Centers of Excellence ## Wikipedia : Wikitube **Strict pair:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flerovium) : [Wikitube](https://en.wikitube.io/wiki/Flerovium) ## Previous hub tags Tree parents: [[Helium]] · [[Hydrogen]] · [[Oxygen]]. Legacy hubs: none. --- *Sources: 1 legacy note. Minted wave 1, 2026-07-30 (v1.6 order).*