Which Happened First?

Discovery of flerovium

Flerovium is a synthetic chemical element; it has symbol Fl and atomic number 114. It is an extremely radioactive, superheavy element, named after the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, where the element was discovered in 1999.

Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Dates from Wikidata (CC0)

Which happened first?

Timeline

  1. Discovery of copernicium1996
  2. Discovery of flerovium (this page)January 1999
  3. Discovery of livermoriumJuly 2000
  4. Discovery of oganessonJune 2002
  5. Discovery of QuaoarJune 4, 2002
  6. Discovery of moscoviumAugust 2003

Related

Play a round with Science · 20th century
Discovery of flerovium (January 1999) · Which Happened First?