Crossover from "another forum"
@humanoidlord said:
element 115 (AKA moscovium) was shown to be unstable upon its discovery
making all of lazar's story impossible
His 2015 rebuttal of these criticisms is that it would either 1. naturally occur somewhere in the universe and they had acquired it, or 2. synthesized a stable isotope form of the element, only hypothetical at the moment.
Moscovium (I say it's Lazarium dammit)
"The hypothetical isotope 291Mc is an especially interesting case as it has only one neutron more than the heaviest known moscovium isotope, 290Mc. It could plausibly be synthesized as the daughter of 295Ts, which in turn could be made from the reaction 249Bk(48Ca,2n)295Ts.
[33]Calculations show that it may have a significant
electron capture or
positron emission decay mode in addition to alpha decaying and also have a relatively long half-life of several seconds. This would produce 291
Fl, 291Nh, and finally 291
Cn which is expected to be in the middle of the island of stability and have a half-life of about 1200 years, affording the most likely hope of reaching the middle of the island using current technology. Possible drawbacks are that the cross section of the production reaction of 295Ts is expected to be low and the decay properties of superheavy nuclei this close to the line of beta stability are largely unexplored.
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