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Ununpentium

Ununpentium (Element 115), pronunced Oon-oon-pen-tee-um, is the name of a super heavy, synthetic element. Its symbol is Uup, and its atomic number is 115. There are not many photographs of Ununpentium owing to onlya small amount of atoms being created, for it is a synthetic matter, and is radio-active. It was discovered by Sergei Dmitriev, a Russian from the Flerov laboratory of nuclear reactions (FLNR) in Dubna, Russia. It is known historically as //Eka-Bismuth.// To create it//,// the team reported that they bombarded Americium (Number 243) with Calcium (Number 48) ions to produce four atoms of Ununpentium. These atoms, they report, decayed by emission of alpha-particles to Ununtrium in approximately 100 milliseconds.