If you were a scientist working with heavy elements, which isotopes would you try to fuse to create the most stable heavy element? Explain your choices. Use a periodic table, the isotope database, and the article you have just read to answer this question.

What are the options? physical property can be color, smell, opacity, viscosity, density, infra red spectrum, melting and boiling points, attraction and repulson to magnets, etc.

Answerthe half-reaction having the greatest tendency to occur at the anode:     i₂(aq) + 2e⁻  ⇄ 2i⁻  ;   e = +0.53 v======oxidation occurs at the anode. we must therefore find the half-reaction with the greatest tendency to oxidize.the given values of e are reduction potentials (the form of the half-reactions are of reduction).the lower the reduction potential, the higher the potential to oxidize. the half-cell with the lowest reduction potential will have the greatest tendency to oxidize at the anode.the half-reaction having the greatest tendency must be    i₂(aq) + 2e⁻  ⇄ 2i⁻    e = +0.53 vbecause its reduction potential is the lowest out of the three.