 Discovery Information
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| Who: GSI |
| When: 1996 |
| Where: GSI, Darmstadt, Germany |
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| Name Origin
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| From the latin for "one one two". |
| "Ununbium" in different languages. |
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| Sources
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| Element 112 was discovered on 9th February 1996 at 22:37 at the GSI in Darmstadt, Germany.
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| Uses
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| None. |
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| History
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| Ununbium was first created on February 9, 1996 at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany. This element was created by fusing a zinc atom with a lead atom by accelerating zinc nuclei into a lead target in a heavy ion accelerator.
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| Notes
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| As only a few atoms of element 112 have ever been made (through a nuclear reaction involving fusing a zinc atom with a lead atom) isolation of an observable quantity has never been achieved, and may well never be. This is because atoms of the element
decompose through the emission of a-particles with a half life of only about 240 microseconds.
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