On October 16, 2006, scientists working at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, along with scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, announced the creation of ununoctium. They produced ununoctium by bombarding atoms of californium-249 with ions of calcium-48. This produced ununoctium-294, an isotope with a half-life of about 0.89 milliseconds (0.00089 seconds), and three free neutrons. The californium target was irradiated with a total of 1.6*1019 calcium ions over the course of 1080 hours, resulting in the production of three atoms of ununoctium.
Ununoctium's most stable isotope, ununoctium-294, has a half-life of about 0.89 milliseconds. It decays into ununhexium-290 through alpha decay.
Since only a few atoms of ununoctium have ever been produced, it currently has no uses outside of basic scientific research.
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