Tennessine - Periodic Table of Videos
Element 117 was synthesised in Russia but named after Tennessee because of the crucial role played by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. A video on every element: http://bit.ly/118elements...
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There may be a slight argument about how you pronounce the name of element 117. I would pronounce it "TEN-e-seen," like iodine and chlorine, but some people in America say "CHLOR-eyen" and "I-o-dyne." But my feeling is that everybody will say "TEN-e-seen" because it sounds just like the state of Tennessee, whereas "TEN-e-syne" doesn't. The reason why it was called tennessine is because Tennessee is the home of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory where the berkelium that was used to make the element, to synthesise it, the heavy target was made out of berkelium, and the berkelium sample was prepared in Oak Ridge. Then, as before, we accelerate a light atom, calcium 48, a very expensive isotope of calcium, into th...
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There may be a slight argument about how you pronounce the name of element 117. I would pronounce it "TEN-e-seen," like iodine and chlorine, but some people in America say "CHLOR-eyen" and "I-o-dyne." But my feeling is that everybody will say "TEN-e-seen" because it sounds just like the state of Tennessee, whereas "TEN-e-syne" doesn't. The reason why it was called tennessine is because Tennessee is the home of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory where the berkelium that was used to make the element, to synthesise it, the heavy target was made out of berkelium, and the berkelium sample was prepared in Oak Ridge. Then, as before, we accelerate a light atom, calcium 48, a very expensive isotope of calcium, into th...
