

The music of Oganesson was created by mixing layers of self-generative modular patches: van Dillen designed and built the very instruments on which this music has been performed. The book covers all 118 elements in 14 chapters.

Such a largely unknown element is however interesting as a topic for creating music for one it leaves a freer hand to creation and association, and next there are things known about it, especially its predicted behaviour, yielding an interesting contradictory nature of this specific element (a solid and likely reactive noble gas!?). It is named after the brilliant Russian-Armenian nuclear physicist Yuri Oganessian (*1933), who contributed to the creation and discoveries of most of the heaviest elements. Oganesson is thus an artificially made radioactive solid noble gas and has the heaviest of all atoms known. Atomic number: 118 Relative atomic mass ( Ar): 294 (longest lived isotope) Standard state: presumably a gas at 298 K Appearance: unknown, but probably a colourless gas Classification: Non-metallic Group in periodic table: 18 Group name: Noble gas Period in periodic table: 7 Block in periodic table: p Shell structure: 2.8.18.32.32.18. The heavier the elements are, the higher their atomic number, and on the whole the faster they radioactively decay. All the elements heavier than 83 Bismuth are unstable and therefore radioactive, decaying into lighter elements. Predicted, because only a handful of atoms have been made of this highly unstable element: literally only 5 (possibly 6) atoms of it have been detected. Ununoctium (pronounced /junnktim/) is the temporary IUPAC name for the transactinide element having atomic number of 118. As an element, Oganesson fits in the group of the so-called “noble gases” but is predicted to be a solid at room temperature. Oganesson is a chemical element of the periodic table with chemical symbol Og and atomic number 118 with an atomic weight of 294 u and is classed as unknown. An alkaline earth metal has the general configuration - Noble gas ns². Elements existing in a particular group possess an equivalent count of valence electrons.
Element 118 full#
Elements 118 Oganesson is the last in the Periodic Table, completing its structure with 7 full layers of electron shells. (a) The element with atomic number 118 is Oganesson, which has the following electron configuration-Og - Rn7s☧p5f✖d¹.
