Tennessine is element 117, a halogen of the p block, in group 17, period 7. Its ground-state configuration is [Rn] 5f14 6d10 7s2 7p5, and it usually shows the oxidation states 0.
It was discovered in 2010.
Name origin: Tennessee, for the contribution of its laboratories to the synthesis.
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