# Moscovium ## 🧊 Moscovium · 3D (three.js) <iframe src="https://wikitube-elements.netlify.app/?el=Mc&embed=1" width="100%" height="620" frameborder="0" style="border:0;border-radius:12px;overflow:hidden" allowfullscreen loading="lazy" title="The Elements 3D microsim - Moscovium"></iframe> *Moscovium 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=Mc) <!-- ELEMENTS_MICROSIM:END --> !Moscovium plate.svg *Plate 115 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.* - Americium-243 - target nucleus for Moscovium creation - Calcium-48 - accelerated projectile in Moscovium synthesis - Island of stability - theoretical region where Moscovium resides - Nuclear decay - the only observable phenomenon of Moscovium ## Links (Wikipedia order) <!-- injected from _registry/childlinks/Moscovium.json (2026-07-30T02:09:12Z) --> `Aaldert_Wapstra` · `Actinide` · [[Actinium]] · `Albert_Ghiorso` · `Alkali_metal` · `Alkaline_earth_metal` · [[Alpha_decay]] · [[Alpha_particle]] · [[Aluminium]] · [[Americium]] · `Ammonia` · `Angstrom` · [[Antimony]] · `Aqueous_solution` · [[Argon]] · `Aromaticity` · [[Arsenic]] · `Arsine` · [[Astatine]] · `Atomic_nucleus` · `Atomic_number` · `Atomic_radius` · `Australian_National_University` · `Azimuthal_quantum_number` · [[Barium]] · [[Berkelium]] · [[Beryllium]] · [[Beta_decay]] · [[Binding_energy]] · [[Bismuth]] · `Bismuth-209` · `Bismuthine` · `Block_(periodic_table)` · `Bloomberg_Businessweek` · 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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: Moscovium](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscovium). <!-- ELEMENTS_MICROSIM:BEGIN (auto-managed block - edits inside will be overwritten) --> ## Key facts (infobox) | | | |---|---| | Symbol - Z | Mc - 115 | | Group - Period - Block | 15 - 7 - p-block | | Atomic weight (Da) | [290] | | Density (g/cm3) | (13.5) | | Melting - Boiling (K) | (700) - (1400) | | Electronegativity (Pauling) | - | | Crustal abundance (mg/kg) | - | | Origin | synthetic | | Phase (STP) | unknown | | Name origin | Moscow, Russia | *Bracketed weights are the mass number of the most stable isotope; values in parentheses are predictions (per the source table).* ## Story Moscovium was first synthesized in 2003 at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, through the bombardment of americium-243 with calcium-48 ions. The element is named for Moscow, the capital of Russia—honoring the geographic heart of the Soviet and Russian nuclear physics program that created it. Mc-290 has a half-life of approximately 0.65 seconds [model-prior - verify], making it one of the more unstable superheavy elements and accessible primarily through nuclear decay chain detection. Moscovium occupies group 15 (the pnictogens), though at this extreme nuclear charge, it is not expected to form molecules or behave like arsenic, phosphorus, or bismuth [model-prior - verify]. Relativistic effects have so profoundly altered the electron orbital structure that any chemistry would be alien to what the periodic table's classical trends would predict [model-prior - verify]. Moscovium exists only in accelerator-produced nuclear decay events. The naming honors Moscow and the Russian scientific tradition that pioneered Soviet synthetic chemistry. From Technetium through the transactinides, Soviet physics led the way—Flerov discovered spontaneous fission, established the Flerov Laboratory, and pursued superheavy element synthesis when the West believed it impossible. Moscovium stands as a monument to that persistent vision. ## 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 - [Moscow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow) - Russian capital and center of Soviet nuclear synthesis science ## Vocational-Technical Semiotics The element speaks the canon's shared signs: the periodic table cell (Mc, group 15, 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: [[Flerovium|Flerovium (114)]] - [[Livermorium|Livermorium (116)]] - R.E.A.C.T.I.O.N. - Centers of Excellence ## Wikipedia : Wikitube **Strict pair:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscovium) : [Wikitube](https://en.wikitube.io/wiki/Moscovium) ## Previous hub tags Tree parents: [[Helium]] · [[Hydrogen]] · [[Oxygen]]. Legacy hubs: none. --- *Sources: 1 legacy note. Minted wave 1, 2026-07-30 (v1.6 order).*