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Livermorium, aka Ununhexium Traditional Geocache

Hidden : 11/22/2014
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
4.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


Livermorium is a synthetic superheavy element with symbol Lv and atomic number 116. It is an extremely radioactive element that has only been created in the laboratory and has not been observed in nature. The element is named after the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the United States, which collaborated with the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia to discover livermorium in 2000. The name of the laboratory honors the city of Livermore, California where it is located, which in turn was named after the rancher and landowner Robert Livermore. The name was adopted by IUPAC on May 30, 2012. Four isotopes of livermorium are known, with mass numbers between 290 and 293 inclusive; the longest-lived among them is livermorium-293 with a half-life of about 60 milleseconds.

In the periodic table, it is a p-block transactinide element. It is a member of the 7th period and is placed in group 16 as the heaviest chalcogen, although it has not been confirmed to behave as the heavier homologue to the chalcogen polonium. Livermorium is calculated to have some similar properties to its lighter homologues, oxygen, sulfer, selenium, tellurium, and polonium, although it should also show several major differences from them.

Finding the cache is not the end goal, you must sign the log to earn a smiley. Don't retrieve the container if you are unable to return it to it's proper location.

Log only, so BYOP. Before attempting, check the attributes and good luck!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Sebz nobir, vg'f orybj & ivfr irefn.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)