# Livermorium ## 🧊 Livermorium · 3D (three.js) <iframe src="https://wikitube-elements.netlify.app/?el=Lv&embed=1" width="100%" height="620" frameborder="0" style="border:0;border-radius:12px;overflow:hidden" allowfullscreen loading="lazy" title="The Elements 3D microsim - Livermorium"></iframe> *Livermorium 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=Lv) <!-- ELEMENTS_MICROSIM:END --> !Livermorium plate.svg *Plate 116 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.* - Curium-248 - target nucleus for Livermorium synthesis - Calcium-48 - accelerated projectile creating Livermorium - Island of stability - the superheavy frontier Livermorium occupies - Chalcogen - the nominal periodic group, whose chemistry Livermorium abandons ## Links (Wikipedia order) <!-- injected from _registry/childlinks/Livermorium.json (2026-07-30T02:09:12Z) --> `Aaldert_Wapstra` · `Actinide` · [[Actinium]] · `Albert_Ghiorso` · `Alkali_metal` · `Alkaline_earth_metal` · [[Alpha_decay]] · [[Alpha_particle]] · [[Aluminium]] · [[Americium]] · [[Antimony]] · [[Argon]] · [[Arsenic]] · [[Astatine]] · `Atomic_nucleus` · `Atomic_number` · `Atomic_radius` · `Australian_National_University` · `Azimuthal_quantum_number` · [[Barium]] · `Barn_(unit)` · `Bent_molecular_geometry` · [[Berkelium]] · [[Beryllium]] · [[Beta_decay]] · [[Bismuth]] · `Bismuth-209` · `Bismuthine` · `Block_(periodic_table)` · `Bloomberg_Businessweek` · [[Bohrium]] · [[Boiling_point]] · [[Boron]] · `Boron_group` · [[Bromine]] · `CAS_Registry_Number` · [[Cadmium]] · [[Caesium]] · [[Calcium]] · `Calcium-48` · [[Californium]] · [[Carbon]] · `Carbon_group` · [[Cerium]] · `Chalcogen` · `Chemical_&_Engineering_News` · [[Chemical_element]] · `Chemical_symbol` · `Chemistry_World` · [[Chlorine]] · [[Chromium]] · [[Cobalt]] · `Cold_fusion` · `Congener_(chemistry)` · [[Copernicium]] · [[Copper]] · `Cosmic_ray` · [[Coulomb's_law]] · `Covalent_radius` · `Cross_section_(physics)` · [[Curium]] · `Czech_Technical_University_in_Prague` · `Darleane_C._Hoffman` · `Darmstadt` · [[Darmstadtium]] · `Decay_energy` · [[Decay_product]] · [[Density]] · `Dubna` · [[Dubnium]] · [[Dysprosium]] · [[Einsteinium]] · [[Electron]] · `Electron_capture` · `Electron_configuration` · `Electronvolt` · `Enthalpy_of_fusion` · `Enthalpy_of_vaporization` · [[Erbium]] · [[Europium]] · `Excited_state` · [[Fermium]] · `Fission_barrier` · [[Flerovium]] · [[Fluorine]] · [[Francium]] · [[Gadolinium]] · [[Gallium]] · `Gamma_ray` · `Georgy_Flerov` · [[Germanium]] · `Germany` · `Glenn_T._Seaborg` · [[Gold]] · `Gottfried_Münzenberg` · `Ground_state` · `Group_(periodic_table)` · `Group_10_element` · `Group_11_element` · `Group_12_element` · `Group_3_element` · `Group_4_element` · `Group_5_element` · `Group_6_element` · `Group_7_element` · `Group_8_element` · `Group_9_element` · [[Hafnium]] · [[Half-life]] · `Halide` · `Halogen` · [[Hassium]] · `Helge_Kragh` · [[Helium]] · [[Holmium]] · `Homologous_series` · [[Hydrogen]] · `Hydrogen-like_atom` · `Hydrogen_chalcogenide` · `Hydrogen_chloride` · `Hydrogen_halide` · `Hydrogen_selenide` · `Hydrogen_sulfide` · `Hydrogen_telluride` · `Hypervalent_molecule` · `IUPAC/IUPAP_Joint_Working_Party` · [[Indium]] · `International_Union_of_Pure_and_Applied_Chemistry` · [[Iodine]] · [[Ionization_energy]] · [[Iridium]] · [[Iron]] · `Island_of_stability` · `Isotope` · `Isotopes_of_curium` · `Isotopes_of_livermorium` · `Joint_Institute_for_Nuclear_Research` · `Kelvin` · `Kinetic_energy` · [[Krypton]] · [[Lanthanum]] · `Lawrence_Berkeley_National_Laboratory` · `Lawrence_Livermore_National_Laboratory` · [[Lawrencium]] · [[Lead]] · `Ligand` · `Linear_molecular_geometry` · `List_of_chemical_element_name_etymologies` · `List_of_data_references_for_chemical_elements` · [[Lithium]] · `Livermore,_California` · [[Lutetium]] · `Magic_number_(physics)` · [[Magnesium]] · `Magnetic_dipole` · [[Manganese]] · `Mass` · `Mass_number` · [[Meitnerium]] · `Melting_point` · `Mendeleev's_predicted_elements` · [[Mendelevium]] · [[Mercury_(element)]] · `Metal` · `Metalloid` · `Millisecond` · `Molar_ionization_energies_of_the_elements` · `Molecule` · [[Molybdenum]] · `Momentum` · [[Moscovium]] · `Moscow_Oblast` · `Natural_abundance` · `Nature_(journal)` · `Nauka_(publisher)` · [[Neodymium]] · [[Neon]] · [[Neptunium]] · [[Neutron]] · `Neutron_flux` · [[Nickel]] · [[Nihonium]] · [[Niobium]] · [[Nitrogen]] · [[Nobelium]] · [[Noble_gas]] · `Norman_Greenwood` · `Nuclear_binding_energy` · `Nuclear_explosion` · `Nuclear_fission` · [[Nuclear_fusion]] · `Nuclear_isomer` · `Nuclear_physics` · `Nuclear_reaction` · `Nuclear_shell_model` · `Nucleon` · [[Oganesson]] · [[Osmium]] · `Oxidation_state` · `Oxide` · [[Oxygen]] · `Oxygen_difluoride` · [[Palladium]] · `Particle_accelerator` · `Particle_beam` · `Period_(periodic_table)` · `Period_1_element` · `Period_2_element` · `Period_3_element` · `Period_4_element` · `Period_5_element` · `Period_6_element` · `Period_7_element` · `Periodic_table` · `Periodic_trends` · `Peter_Armbruster` · `Phase_(matter)` · [[Phosphorus]] · `Physical_Review_Letters` · `Physics_Today` · `Physics_World` · `Picometre` · `Placeholder_name` · [[Platinum]] · [[Plutonium]] · `Plutonium-244` · `Pnictogen` · `Polonide` · [[Polonium]] · `Polonium_hydride` · `Post-transition_metal` · [[Potassium]] · [[Praseodymium]] · `Primordial_nuclide` · [[Promethium]] · [[Protactinium]] · [[Proton]] · `Pure_and_Applied_Chemistry` · `Quadrupole_magnet` · `Quantum_number` · `Quantum_tunnelling` · `R-process` · [[Radioactive_decay]] · [[Radium]] · [[Radon]] · `Rectangular_potential_barrier` · `Redox` · `Relativistic_quantum_chemistry` · [[Rhenium]] · [[Rhodium]] · `Robert_Livermore` · [[Roentgenium]] · `Room_temperature` · `Royal_Society_of_Chemistry` · [[Rubidium]] · [[Ruthenium]] · [[Rutherfordium]] · `Samanth_Subramanian` · [[Samarium]] · [[Scandium]] · [[Science_(journal)]] · `Scientific_American` · [[Seaborgium]] · `Selenide` · [[Selenium]] · `Semiconductor_detector` · `Sigurd_Hofmann` · [[Silicon]] · [[Silver]] · [[Sodium]] · `Speed_of_light` · [[Spin_(physics)]] · `Spin–orbit_interaction` · [[Spontaneous_fission]] · `Springer_Science+Business_Media` · `Standard_temperature_and_pressure` · `Stannane` · `Stockholm` · `Stockholm_County` · `Strong_interaction` · [[Strontium]] · `Sulfide` · [[Sulfur]] · `Superheavy_element` · `Sweden` · `Synthetic_element` · `Synthetic_radioisotope` · `Systematic_element_name` · [[Tantalum]] · [[Technetium]] · `Telluride_(chemistry)` · [[Tellurium]] · [[Tennessine]] · [[Terbium]] · [[Thallium]] · `The_Conversation_(website)` · [[Thorium]] · [[Thulium]] · `Time-of-flight_mass_spectrometry` · `Timeline_of_chemical_element_discoveries` · [[Tin]] · [[Titanium]] · [[Tungsten]] · `Unbinilium` · `University_of_North_Texas` · `Université_libre_de_Bruxelles` · `Ununennium` · [[Uranium]] · `Valence_electron` · [[Vanadium]] · `Victor_Ninov` · `Volatility_(chemistry)` · `Water` · [[Wayback_Machine]] · `Weak_interaction` · `World_Scientific` · [[Xenon]] · [[Ytterbium]] · [[Yttrium]] · `Yuri_Oganessian` · [[Zinc]] · [[Zirconium]] > **Official MAIN - Chemical element, Z = 116.** Part of the Elements Canon (one canonical page per element). Infobox grounded in [Wikipedia: List of chemical elements](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_elements), fetched 2026-07-08. Full article: [Wikipedia: Livermorium](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livermorium). <!-- ELEMENTS_MICROSIM:BEGIN (auto-managed block - edits inside will be overwritten) --> ## Key facts (infobox) | | | |---|---| | Symbol - Z | Lv - 116 | | Group - Period - Block | 16 - 7 - p-block | | Atomic weight (Da) | [293] | | Density (g/cm3) | (12.9) | | Melting - Boiling (K) | (700) - (1100) | | Electronegativity (Pauling) | - | | Crustal abundance (mg/kg) | - | | Origin | synthetic | | Phase (STP) | unknown | | Name origin | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | *Bracketed weights are the mass number of the most stable isotope; values in parentheses are predictions (per the source table).* ## Story Livermorium was first synthesized in 2000 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, through the bombardment of curium-248 with calcium-48 ions. The element is named for the laboratory itself—Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, home to both the cyclotron work and the nuclear stockpile research program. Lv-293 has a half-life of approximately 0.061 seconds [model-prior - verify], one of the shortest-lived superheavy elements, accessible only through rapid nuclear decay detection. Livermorium occupies group 16 (the chalcogens), where it would nominally be expected to resemble oxygen, sulfur, selenium, and tellurium—yet this expectation is shattered at the superheavy frontier [model-prior - verify]. Relativistic effects may cause it to display noble-gas-like properties or form unexpected bonds [model-prior - verify]. Its chemistry, if observable, would be unprecedented and wholly driven by relativistic quantum mechanics. The naming returns honor to the American laboratory that played a crucial role in the superheavy element frontier, particularly in nuclear stockpile stewardship science. Livermorium represents the American contribution to the international synthesis efforts that created the final elements of period 7. ## 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 - [Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Livermore_National_Laboratory) - American nuclear science facility where Livermorium was synthesized ## Vocational-Technical Semiotics The element speaks the canon's shared signs: the periodic table cell (Lv, group 16, 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: [[Moscovium|Moscovium (115)]] - [[Tennessine|Tennessine (117)]] - R.E.A.C.T.I.O.N. - Centers of Excellence ## Wikipedia : Wikitube **Strict pair:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livermorium) : [Wikitube](https://en.wikitube.io/wiki/Livermorium) ## Previous hub tags Tree parents: [[Helium]] · [[Hydrogen]] · [[Oxygen]]. Legacy hubs: none. --- *Sources: 1 legacy note. Minted wave 1, 2026-07-30 (v1.6 order).*