trans-copernicium

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Adjective

trans-copernicium (not comparable)

  1. (chemistry) Lying beyond copernicium in the periodic table; having an atomic number greater than 112.
    • 2011 June, Robert C. Barber, Paul J. Karol, Hiromichi Nakahara, Emanuele Vardaci, & Erich W. Vogt, “Discovery of the elements with atomic numbers greater than or equal to 113”, in Pure and Applied Chemistry, volume 83, number 7:
      The IUPAC/IUPAP JWP performed a critical review of the various claims to discovery of the trans-copernicium elements Z = 113, 114, 115, 116, and 118. Evidence in the cases of elements Z = 113, 115, and 118 have not met the criteria for discovery.
    • 2016, Stefan Schramm & ‎Mirko Schäfer, New Horizons in Fundamental Physics, →ISBN, page 86:
      The α–α correlation technique will fail here for element identification as already became clear with the new trans-copernicium elements.
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