The image features an abstracted form inspired by the colonnade of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), where the element was discovered. The two main colours represent the creation of the element from calcium and plutonium. The background features abstracted particle trails and sections from the ground plan of the accelerator at JINR.

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Uses

At present, it is only used in research.

History

Despite several attempts to make element 114, it was only in 1998 that a team led by Yuri Oganessian and Vladimir Utyonkov at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Russia produced it by bombarding plutonium with calcium. It needed 5 billion billion (5 x 1018) atoms of calcium to be fired at the target to produce a single atom of flerovium, in an experiment lasting 40 days. A few more two atoms were produced the following year.