Atomic Properties of Fl
- Atomic Number of Fl
- 114
- Atomic Mass of Fl
- 289.0000 u
- Electron Configuration
- [Rn] 5f14 6d10 7s2 7p2
- Electronegativity
- —
- Block
- p-block
- Group
- 14
- Period
- 7
Flerovium seems like an introvert even among superheavies. Created in tiny amounts, he vanishes quickly and is expected to be oddly unreactive for a metal, thanks to intense relativistic effects.
Named for the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions in Dubna, he prefers controlled environments, clean vacuum, and minimal social contact with other atoms.
Chemists joke that he’s trying to be a noble gas, despite living in the carbon–lead column.
Flerovium shrugs. “I just like my personal space,” he says, which, at the edge of the table, is understandable.
He’s there to test where metallic behavior starts to blur into something stranger.