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Lecture by Dr. Paweł Napiorkowski organized as part of the Discovery Day of the Ochota Campus [9 May 2019] https://wszechnica.org.pl/wyklad/czy-... The physicist talks about the production of superheavy elements by nuclear fusion and the chances of supplementing the Mendeleev table with their subsequent discoveries. The Mendeleev table is still supplemented with new, artificially produced superheavy elements. The heaviest is currently oganesson, which has an atomic number of 118. Physicist Dr. Paweł J. Napiorkowski, during a lecture as part of the Discovery Day of the Ochota Campus of the University of Warsaw, undertook to answer the question of where the limit lies for expanding the periodic table with more. Superheavy elements are produced artificially in laboratories by nuclear fusion. However, the greater the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom, the higher the number of neutrons must be for it to be stable. The heaviest element on the Mendeleev table that has been synthesized so far is oganesson. It has an atomic number of 118. During his lecture, Dr. Paweł J. Napiorkowski answered the question of whether it is possible to produce elements with even heavier nuclei. However, before the answer was given, the audience could learn about the cosmic origin of the elements, learn about the method of their artificial production, and follow the dramatic story of supplementing the periodic table with additional elements. Dr. Paweł J. Napiorkowski - Heavy Ion Laboratory of the University of Warsaw Find us: / Wszechnicafww / Wszechnicafww1 https://anchor.fm/wszechnicaorgpl---h... https://anchor.fm/wszechnica-fww-nauka https://wszechnica.org.pl/ #tablicamendeleev #pierwiastki #doko #mendeleev #chemistry #nauka