Confirmed the 115 th element in the periodic table

Scientists say they have created a handful of atoms of element 115, which occupies a mysterious corner of the periodic table.

Very heavy element has yet to be officially named, but it is provisionally called Ununpentium, roughly based on Latin and Greek words for numbers in its atomic number 115.

Atomic number is the number of protons that an element contains. Heavier elements found in nature is uranium, which has 92 protons, but scientists can charge more protons in an atomic nucleus and makes it heavier elements through nuclear fusion reactions.

Scientists hope that by creating a more heavy elements, they will theoretically find "island of stability" in an undisclosed region of the periodic table, where elements can exist with unimaginable uses.

In experiments in Dubna, Russia, about 10 years ago, researchers reported that they had created atoms with 115 protons. Their measurements have been confirmed in experiments at GSI Helmholcitz Centre for Heavy Ions Research in Germany.

To ununpentiumin examined in the new study, a group of researchers has used a very fast beam calcium (which has 20 protons) in a thin membrane americium, element with 95 protons. When atomic nuclei collided, some of them joined together to create atoms with 115 protons.