What is Dubnium?
Dubnium is a metallic chemical element in the transactinide series on the periodic table of elements. Like other elements in this group, it is radioactive and its isotopes have extremely short half lives, making it very difficult to study. As a result, no commercial uses for dubnium have been developed; the element typically only appears in specialized research laboratories, and when it does, it is only for a few seconds. This element is also classified among a larger group of elements called transuranic elements. These elements are all extremely heavy, with atomic numbers higher than that of uranium. They share the traits of extreme instability and radioactivity, making them frustrating and potentially dangerous to study. Many also do not appear in nature; dubnium is one such example. In order to obtain dubnium, scientists must bombard other elements with charged particles, typically generating isotopes of this element. Because dubnium has only been synthesized in such small amounts,
