Discovered in: 1994

Discovered by: S. Hoffmann, V. Ninov, F. Hessberger, P. Armbruster and G. Munzenberg and others of Germany.

Description: Unununium is a temporary IUPAC name. Unununium is a highly radioactive metal. It has never been found naturally and only a few atoms have been produced in laboratories. Its chemistry and appearance are not known with any certainty, although the chemistry is believed to be similar to gold. Unununium is too rare to have any commercial or industrial application. The most stable isotope of unununium has a half-life of a fraction of a thousandth of a second

Biological Rating: No known benefits for life processes in plants and animals.

Biological Benefits: Unununium has no biological use.

Percentage Amount in the Human Body: 0 %

Obtained from: Unununium is obtained by the fusion process of bombarding bismuth with nickel.