oganesson

Oganesson is a human-made chemical element (symbol Og, atomic number 118) that was first created in 2002 by Russian and American scientists at a research institute in Russia. It was officially recognized and named in 2015-2016 in honor of nuclear physicist Yuri Oganessian, who made major contributions to discovering the heaviest elements on the periodic table.

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