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How was livermorium created in 2000?

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In 2000, scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California successfully created livermorium, the sixth member of the oxygen group element family.12

The element was produced using a particle accelerator to fuse curium-248 with calcium-48. This process resulted in atoms of livermorium with an atomic weight of 292, which subsequently decayed into flerovium through the emission of an alpha particle.12