Doug,
Looking at the periodic table, for its periodicity, one can see that likely common oxidation numbers for Livermorium could be -2 and +6, the latter being more likely, since all the elements in the Ga/Uut/Lv triangle have or are predicted to have metallic properties.  But Wikipedia says that due to the inert pair effect that livermorium's most stable oxidation state should be +2.

Again in Wikipedia, moscovium (removing reference numbers for clarity)
"is a member of group 15, the pnictogens, below nitrogen, phosphorus, arsenic, antimony, and bismuth. Every previous pnictogen has five electrons in its valence shell, forming a valence electron configuration of ns2np3(the 2 and 3 should be superscripts). In moscovium's case, the trend should be continued and the valence electron configuration is predicted to be 7s27p3; therefore, moscovium will behave similarly to its lighter congeners in many respects. However, notable differences are likely to arise; a largely contributing effect is the spin–orbit (SO) interaction—the mutual interaction between the electrons' motion and spin. It is especially strong for the superheavy elements, because their electrons move much faster than in lighter atoms, at velocities comparable to the speed of light. In relation to moscovium atoms, it lowers the 7s and the 7p electron energy levels (stabilizing the corresponding electrons), but two of the 7p electron energy levels are stabilized more than the other four. The stabilization of the 7s electrons is called the inert pair effect, and the effect "tearing" the 7p subshell into the more stabilized and the less stabilized parts is called subshell splitting. Computation chemists see the split as a change of the second (azimuthal) quantum number l from 1 to  1⁄2 and  3⁄2 for the more stabilized and less stabilized parts of the 7p subshell, respectively. For many theoretical purposes, the valence electron configuration may be represented to reflect the 7p subshell split as 7s2 7p21/2 7p13/2. These effects cause moscovium's chemistry to be somewhat different from that of its lighter congeners.

The valence electrons of moscovium fall into three subshells: 7s (two electrons), 7p1/2 (two electrons), and 7p3/2 (one electron). The first two of these are relativistically stabilized and hence behave as inert pairs, while the last is relativistically destabilized and can easily participate in chemistry. (The 6d electrons are not destabilized enough to participate chemically, although this may still be possible in the two previous elements nihonium and flerovium.) Thus, the +1 oxidation state should be favored, like Tl+, and consistent with this the first ionization potential of moscovium should be around 5.58 eV, continuing the trend towards lower ionization potentials down the pnictogens."

Therefore, IF it exists, Spleenium should have a common oxidation number of +1.5.  I would be curious to know what that half electron looks like - just a hemisphere, half the size of a normal one or if we could really see it, some weird shape that just looking at it would turn my mind to jelly.

Regards,
Bev

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My esteemed colleague seems to be somewhat inconsistent.  He has no information to create clues, yet disqualifies my answers on similarly limited information.



My esteemed colleague is referring to another of the Half Fractional (note the spelling Dean) elements, Spleenium (Sp-115.5).  Spleenium, a p-block transactanide element, was discovered in the same research effort that identified Livermorium, between the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the United States, which collaborated with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia.  The naming of the two materials was actually the result of unprofessional name calling between the two research groups.  The American team, witnessing the prodigious vodka consumption of the Russian team, said the Russian’s livers would have a half life about the same as the first element, and so called it Livermorium.  The Russian team, witnessing the regular “venting of the spleen” of the excitable American researchers called the second element Spleenium.  When the IUPAC met on May 30, they ruled that Spleenium was more likely one of the isotopes of Livermorium, but the Russian team members with the pertinent alternative data could not be located.  It was whispered that the CIA made a late night visit to that team on May 29th.  The IUPAC is known to have an anti-Russian bias.  Since Spleenium only has a half life of about 59 milliseconds, no one knows what valence state it would be (sorry Bev).



So Dave, what do I win this week?




Doug Pauls
Principal Materials and Process Engineer Rockwell Collins

On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 9:09 AM, David Hillman < [log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Here is the Element Quiz Question:
>
> The Question:
> There is nearly no information on this element from which I can create 
> clues so we are going to see who has an up to date Periodic Table at 
> their desk. This element has an atomic weight of 293. What is the 
> IUPAC approved name of the element as of May, 2012.
>
>
> The winner of the quiz will get the services of Clumpy and Kloumpios 
> for the week.
>
>
> So far Clumpy and Kloumpios have done the following:
>
> Past Quiz winners/tasks:
> Week 1 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital Week 1 Ron Feyereisen, 
> SigmaTron Intl.
> Week 2 Louis Hart, Compunetics
> Week 3 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger Ltd.
> Week 3 John Burke
> Week 4 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics Week 5 No Winner - no correct 
> responses!
> Week 6 Bhanu Sood, NASA
> Week 7 Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corp
> Week 7 Ian Fox, Rolls Royce
> Week 8 Leland Woodall
> Week 8 David Bealer, SMT
> Week 9 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> Week 10 Louis Hart, Compunetics
> Week 11 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> Week 11 Scott Decker, UTAS
> Week 12 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly 
> Week 13 No Quiz, Week 14 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB 
> Design and Assembly Week 15 Bhanu Sood, NASA Week 16 John Maxwell Week 
> 17 Leland Woodall Week 18 Leland Woodall Week 19 Tom Carroll, Boeing 
> Week 20 Robert Kondner Week 21 Tom Brendlinger, ClearMotion Inc.
> Week 22 Carl Van Wormer, Cipher Engineering LCC Week 23 Juliano 
> Ribeiro, DATACOM Week 24 Gerry Gagnon, FLIR Commercial Systems Week 25 
> Graham Collins, Sunsel Systems Week 26 Joyce Koo, IPC International 
> Week 26 Todd MacFadden, Bose Week 27 Bhanu Sood, NASA Week 28 Leland 
> Woodall Week 29 Mordechai Kirshenbaum Week 30 Leland Woodall Week 31 
> Leland Woodall Week 32 Steve Gregory Week 33 Leland Woodall
>
> Week 34 Jerry Dengler, Pergamon Corp
> - You can have the boys fly into Philadelphia.  They can help load the 
> Calibration Certificates into our system and update the Cal date.  
> After that maybe they can help audit work instructions.
>
> Week 35 ????
> - assisted with ????
>
>
> I hope everyone has a awesome week.
>
> Dave Hillman
> Rockwell Collins
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