tennessine

chemical element with symbol Ts and atomic number 117
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Summary

tennessine is a chemical element[1]. tennessine draws 6,016 Wikipedia views per month (chemical element category, ranking #69 of 144).[2]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Yuri Oganessian[3]
  • Instance of: synthetic element[4]
  • Named after: Tennessee[5]
  • Location of discovery: Joint Institute for Nuclear Research[6]
  • Element symbol: Ts[7], Uus[8]
  • Subclass of: halogens[9], p-block[10]
  • Part of: period 7[11], halogens[12]
  • Commons category: Tennessine[13]
  • Unicode character: 鿬[14]
  • Time of discovery or invention: January 1, 2009[15], 2010[16]
  • IPA transcription: ˈtɛnəsiːn[17]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Tennessine[18]
  • Atomic number: 117[19]
  • Oxidation state: -1[20], 1[21], 3[22], 5[23]
  • Different from: Tennessee[24]
  • Mass: 294.21046[25]
  • Boiling point: 883.0[26]
  • Permanent duplicated item: Q65410944[27]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[28]
  • Electron configuration: [Rn] 7s² 5f¹⁴ 6d¹⁰ 7p⁵[29]
  • P14541: 3zghzv[30]

Why It Matters

tennessine has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] tennessine is known by 123 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 27d ago · R1F4T · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Mass → {'amount': '+294.21046'}
    Oxidation state → {'amount': '-1'}, {'amount': '+1'}, {'amount': '+3'} +1
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Mass: 294.21046±0.00074 dalton, add the mass of the longest-lived isotope (AME via NIST)"
  2. 27d ago · R1F4T · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Oxidation state → {'amount': '-1'}, {'amount': '+1'}, {'amount': '+3'} +1
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Oxidation state: −1, add oxidation state from en:Template:Infobox element/symbol-to-oxidation-state"
  3. 27d ago · R1F4T · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Ipa transcription → ˈtɛnəsiːn
    Pronunciation audio → LL-Q150 (fra)-Guilhelma-tennesse.wav, LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-ten
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Ipa transcription: ˈtɛnəsiːn, add IPA transcription (from en:Template:Infobox element/symbol-to-pronunciation)"
  4. 27d ago · R1F4T · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Electron configuration → [Rn] 7s² 5f¹⁴ 6d¹⁰ 7p⁵
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Electron configuration: [Rn] 7s² 5f¹⁴ 6d¹⁰ 7p⁵, add predicted electron configuration (Aufbau extrapolation, marked presumably)"
  5. 28d ago · R1F4T · 2026-09-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → halogens, p-block
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Subclass of: p-block, add periodic table block (IUPAC 2021 convention)"
  6. 8w ago · Baum64 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Boiling point → {'amount': '+883.0'}
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Boiling point: 883.0 kelvin, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269026|batch #269026]]"
  7. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3zghzv
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14541: 3zghzv, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1783718152792"
  8. 21w ago · Ponor · 2026-05-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Hrvatska enciklopedija id → tenes
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/31836|batch #31836]]: Hrvatska enciklopedija"
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