it has six electrons in the last shell so it can get 2 electrons to become stable but our teacher told us that it is unreactive. is it because its more radioactive than its reactivity?
2007-02-25 18:06:22 · 1 answers · asked by . : [ s a k u r a ] : . 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
The sweet sweet irony. The element was only discovered literally less than 6 months ago. Absolutely nothing is known about its reactivity. I'm guessing your teacher was trying to have you understand periodic trends and explain that since element 118 would be a noble gas it wouldn't be reactive, and messed up and named element 116 instead. Alternatively, since ununhexium's half-life is only 47 microseconds, you'd have to be a mighty fast chemist to do anything with it because it would decay too fast (i.e. your statement that it's too radioactive to react would be correct). In any case for your teacher to say it is unreactive is a made-up statement, because it's reactivity with anything has not been tested. Therefore your teacher is making stuff up, which is SO ironic given the history of this element, which you will appreciate if you check out it's brief entry on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ununhexium
2007-02-25 18:16:59 · answer #1 · answered by Some Body 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋