Tennessine - Wikiparency

# Tennessine ## 🧊 Tennessine · 3D (three.js) <iframe src="https://wikitube-elements.netlify.app/?el=Ts&embed=1" width="100%" height="620" frameborder="0" style="border:0;border-radius:12px;overflow:hidden" allowfullscreen loading="lazy" title="The Elements 3D microsim - Tennessine"></iframe> *Tennessine 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=Ts)  !Tennessine plate.svg *Plate 117 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.* - Berkelium-249 - target nucleus for Tennessine synthesis - Calcium-48 - accelerated projectile creating Tennessine - Halogen - the nominal periodic group Tennessine abandons - Island of stability - the theoretical safe harbor for superheavy nuclei like Tennessine ## Links (Wikipedia order)  `Aaldert_Wapstra` · `Acetyl_group` · `Actinide` · [[Actinium]] · `Age_of_the_universe` · `Albert_Ghiorso` · `Alkali_metal` · `Alkaline_earth_metal` · [[Alpha_decay]] · [[Aluminium]] · [[Americium]] · [[Antimony]] · [[Argon]] · [[Arsenic]] · [[Astatine]] · [[Atomic_mass]] · `Atomic_nucleus` · `Atomic_number` · `Atomic_orbital` · `Atomic_radius` · `Australian_National_University` · `Azimuthal_quantum_number` · [[Barium]] · [[Berkelium]] · [[Beryllium]] · [[Beta_decay]] · [[Bismuth]] · `Block_(periodic_table)` · `Bloomberg_Businessweek` · [[Bohrium]] · [[Boiling_point]] · [[Boron]] · `Boron_group` · [[Bromine]] · `CAS_Registry_Number` · `CRC_Press` · [[Cadmium]] · 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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: Tennessine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessine).  ## Key facts (infobox) | | | |---|---| | Symbol - Z | Ts - 117 | | Group - Period - Block | 17 - 7 - p-block | | Atomic weight (Da) | [294] | | Density (g/cm3) | (7.1-7.3) | | Melting - Boiling (K) | (700) - (883) | | Electronegativity (Pauling) | - | | Crustal abundance (mg/kg) | - | | Origin | synthetic | | Phase (STP) | unknown | | Name origin | Tennessee, home of ORNL | *Bracketed weights are the mass number of the most stable isotope; values in parentheses are predictions (per the source table).* ## Story Tennessine was first synthesized in 2010 at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, through the bombardment of berkelium-249 with calcium-48 ions. The element is named for Tennessee, the American state where ORNL is located—honoring the scientific institution that participated in the international superheavy element synthesis frontier. Ts-294 has a half-life of approximately 0.89 seconds [model-prior - verify], one of the extremely short-lived superheavy elements, detectable only through rapid nuclear decay processes. Tennessine occupies group 17 (the halogens), yet it is expected to diverge radically from the chemistry of fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine [model-prior - verify]. Some theoretical models predict it may display noble-gas-like chemical inertness due to relativistic orbital effects [model-prior - verify]. At the superheavy frontier, the periodic table's traditional group chemistry dissolves entirely into relativistic quantum mechanical behavior. The naming completes the American contribution to period 7 synthesis. From Lawrence Livermore to Oak Ridge, American national laboratories participated in the final creation of the synthetic periodic table. Tennessine represents the collaboration between Russian, European, American, and Japanese institutions that reached the frontier of nuclear synthesis. ## 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 - [Oak Ridge National Laboratory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Ridge_National_Laboratory) - American facility where Tennessine was synthesized ## Vocational-Technical Semiotics The element speaks the canon's shared signs: the periodic table cell (Ts, group 17, 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: [[Livermorium|Livermorium (116)]] - [[Oganesson|Oganesson (118)]] - R.E.A.C.T.I.O.N. - Centers of Excellence ## Wikipedia : Wikitube **Strict pair:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessine) : [Wikitube](https://en.wikitube.io/wiki/Tennessine) ## Previous hub tags Tree parents: [[Helium]] · [[Hydrogen]] · [[Oxygen]]. Legacy hubs: none. --- *Sources: 1 legacy note. Minted wave 1, 2026-07-30 (v1.6 order).*