| Ununoctium [Uuo] (CAS-ID: 54144-19-3) | |
| An: 118 N: Am: unknown | |
| Group No: 18 Group Name: Noble Gases | |
| Block: p-block Period: 7 | |
| State: presumably a gas at 298 K | |
| Colour: unknown, but probably a colourless gas Classification: Non-metallic | |
| Boiling Point: unknown (?) | |
| Melting Point: unknown (?) | |
| Density: unknown | |
| Availability: This item is purely synthetic and is not available commercially. | |
 Discovery Information |
| Who: n/a |
| When: n/a |
| Where: n/a |
| Name Origin |
| From the latin for "one one eight". |
| Sources |
| None. |
| Uses |
| None. |
| Notes |
| A team of Berkeley Lab scientists that announced in 1999 the observation of what appeared to be Element 118, the heaviest undiscovered transuranic element at the time, have retracted its original paper after several confirmation experiments failed to reproduce the results. |