Definitions For Oganesson

Noun

OGANESSON (uncountable) The chemical element (Symbol Og) with atomic number 118. It is the heaviest known element. Highly radioactive, it does not occur naturally. Originally expected to be a noble gas, it is now predicted to be a reactive metallic solid, and a semi-conductor or a post-transition metal. , "Oganesson Is a Semiconductor: On the Relativistic Band-Gap Narrowing in the Heaviest Noble-Gas Solids"

Synonyms

og ununoctium eka-radon

Translations

Catalan: oganessó, m Chinese: : Mandarin: 鿫, tr=ào Danish: oganesson, n Esperanto: oganesono Finnish: oganesson French: oganesson, m German: Oganesson, n Greek: ογκανέσσιο, n Hungarian: oganeszon Italian: oganesson, m Japanese: オガネソン, tr=oganeson Kazakh: оганесон Korean: 오가네손 Latvian: oganesons, m Macedonian: оганесон, m Norwegian: : Bokmål: oganesson, n : Nynorsk: oganesson, n Polish: oganeson, m-in Russian: оганесон, m Spanish: oganesón, m Vietnamese: oganesson

Etymology

oganessian + on. Promulgated in June 2016 by the based on recommendations of the and to honor the Russian physicist (born 1933) who researched superheavy elements.