“DISCUSS THE ORIGIN OF

MAN-MADE ELEMENT”

Submitted by: Jared Criss Pelayo and Maribel Monredondo

Submitted to: Sir Renevic Pitogo
 a. Discuss the element’s basic characteristics.

b. Give a brief timeline leading up to the element’s

discovery.
Characteristics:
 Dubnium is harmful due to its radioactivity.
 Dubnium is a transactinide or super-heavy
element.
 It is a radioactive synthetic metal and has only
been produced in tiny amounts.
YEAR IMPORTANT EVENTS:
 The team in Russia led by Georgy Flerov
1968 bombarded an americium-243 target with neon-22
ions and synthesized isotopes of element 105,
identified as 260Db or 261Db.

 The experiment was repeated a year later using

1970 gradient thermo chromatography for more precise
identification of the isotopes formed. Synthesis
of 260Db was confirmed.

 The Dubna team proposed calling the new

element neilsbohrium (Ns) after the Nobel Prize
winning physicist Niels Bohr.
YEAR IMPORTANT EVENTS:
 The team in California led by Albert Ghiorsio
1970 also attempted to synthesize element 105. They
had no success with repeating the Russian
experiment but they successfully synthesized
element 105 by bombarding a californium-249
target with nitrogen-15 ions.

1997  The Council of the International Union of Pure

and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) decided that
transactinide element 105 should be given the
name Dubnium (Db) after the research facility in
Russia where it was synthesized.
 The chemical element dubnium is classed as a
transition metal. It was discovered in 1970 by a
team (Dubna) of scientists led by Georgy Flerov.