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5 ways the heaviest element on the periodic table is really bizarre

New calculations predict oganesson’s weird properties

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NAME GAME  First created  in a lab in 2002, element 118 was officially dubbed oganesson in 2016. New studies predict some of the element’s odd properties.

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By Dan Garisto

- More than 2 years ago

The first 117 elements on the periodic table were relatively normal. Then along came element 118.

Oganesson, named for Russian physicist Yuri Oganessian (SN: 1/21/17, p.