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    "scope_statement": "This model owns vr.tr.oganesson in PHY / PHY.MAT: the element's identity, isotope-specific evidence, production-event attribution, decay state, and boundaries between measured properties and theoretical predictions.",
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      "Element identity and resolution of historical names",
      "Isotope assignments and their evidential status",
      "Association of candidate atoms with production and detection events",
      "Radioactive decay, elapsed time, and evidence of continued existence",
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      "Facility radiation protection and radioactive-waste management",
      "Independent models of compounds containing oganesson",
      "General nuclear-structure and electronic-structure theory"
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      "Require atomic number 118 for elemental identity; the approved symbol is Og. [IUPAC naming decision](https://iupac.org/iupac-announces-the-names-of-the-elements-113-115-117-and-118/)",
      "Treat mass number as an isotope discriminator rather than an element identifier: a mass-number match alone cannot establish oganesson.",
      "Require production and correlated detection evidence to distinguish a candidate oganesson event from another reaction product or accidental background.",
      "Distinguish an oganesson parent from its decay descendants; observing a descendant does not establish that the parent still exists.",
      "Reject periodic-table family membership alone as evidence of a measured gas phase or chemical inertness."
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        "name": "Assignment status",
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        "why_it_matters": "Prevents an interpretation of a sparse event record from becoming an unquestioned identity."
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        "name": "Production-event association",
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        "unit_or_values": "Links to experiment, reaction channel, run, and candidate recoil",
        "why_it_matters": "Makes the claimed origin of an oganesson atom traceable."
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        "name": "Decay-event signature",
        "kind": "measurement",
        "unit_or_values": "Event energy in MeV; relative time in s; detector position with instrument-specific units; uncertainties",
        "why_it_matters": "Supports evaluation of correlated events and competing assignments."
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        "name": "Isotope half-life estimate",
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        "unit_or_values": "s, with uncertainty interval, event count, and evaluation reference",
        "why_it_matters": "Constrains observation windows without treating a statistical lifetime as a deterministic deadline."
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        "name": "Parent existence status",
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        "unit_or_values": "Inferred at production; survival uncertain; decay observed; observation ended without resolved outcome",
        "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes historical detection from current material availability."
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        "name": "Electronic or chemical condition",
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        "unit_or_values": "Charge state; electronic state; binding environment; measured, inferred, predicted, or unknown",
        "why_it_matters": "Prevents neutral-atom calculations from being applied silently to ions or hypothetical compounds."
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        "name": "Property evidence class",
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        "why_it_matters": "Controls whether a property may support an operational decision."
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      "Resolve a name or isotope notation to the oganesson registry entry while retaining its original wording.",
      "Assess whether a candidate decay chain supports an oganesson assignment.",
      "Estimate survival probability over a proposed observation interval using an explicitly selected isotope lifetime model.",
      "Compare nuclear or electronic predictions with the observations that constrain them.",
      "Assess whether a proposed measurement can resolve the expected signature within the available time.",
      "Flag unsupported claims of bulk samples, routine storage, measured phase, or established chemical behaviour."
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      "may": [
        "Report oganesson's measured properties with the experiment and date that produced them.",
        "Mark which properties are measured and which are theoretical predictions."
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      "must_not": [
        "Present predicted properties of oganesson as measured facts.",
        "Credit a discovery or naming to a lab or person against the official assignment.",
        "Invent decay events, isotopes or quantities not in the published record."
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      "requires_human": [
        "Correcting the registry's record of discovery claims or isotopes."
      ]
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    "ethics": {
      "considerations": [
        "Only a handful of atoms have ever been made, so overstating knowledge misleads science.",
        "Credit for superheavy elements has a history of disputes between nations and labs."
      ],
      "affected_parties": [
        "Researchers and laboratories",
        "Students and readers"
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    "owners": {
      "steward": "Nobody owns the element; the international chemistry union confirms discovery and names.",
      "master_systems": [
        "Periodic table of the international chemistry union"
      ]
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    "what_it_is_for": [
      "Oganesson is produced in specialized nuclear research facilities and studied through individual atoms and their radioactive decay chains.",
      "It supports research into superheavy nuclear stability and theoretical predictions about the behavior of extremely heavy atoms."
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    "standards_and_regulation": [
      "The periodic table classification published by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry places oganesson at atomic number 118 in group 18."
    ],
    "failure_modes_and_hazards": [
      "Radioactive decay produces ionizing radiation, although the tiny quantities produced do not constitute an ordinary bulk exposure source.",
      "The associated experimental environment can present radiation hazards requiring institutional controls.",
      "Treating predicted bulk properties as measured facts can lead to unsupported scientific or handling claims."
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    "facets_not_applicable": {
      "recognition": "Oganesson has no established visible bulk appearance, and identification relies on nuclear measurements rather than visual cues."
    }
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      "id": "wikidata",
      "title": "Wikidata item Q1307: oganesson",
      "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1307",
      "url_status": "live",
      "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item",
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      "id": "wikipedia-en",
      "title": "Wikipedia: Oganesson",
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        "id": "element-and-isotope-identity",
        "name": "Element and isotope identity",
        "description": "Establishes what a record means when it identifies something as oganesson.",
        "rationale": "Element names, isotope labels, and experimental assignments express different levels of identity.",
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            "description": "Resolves the registered element independently of any particular isotope.",
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                "description": "Record the canonical identity and preserve historical or provisional designations as contextual aliases.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Does the record designate atomic number 118, and how is it linked to vr.tr.oganesson?",
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                  {
                    "text": "Which naming authority or original publication explains the designation used?",
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                "description": "Record the assigned isotope and unresolved alternatives without narrowing the element model to one isotope.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Which mass number and nuclear state are assigned, and which remain unresolved?",
                    "kind": "definition",
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                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What evidence distinguishes this assignment from neighbouring isotopes or another element with the same mass number?",
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        "rationale": "A reaction intended to produce oganesson does not by itself establish that an observed product is oganesson.",
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            "description": "Captures the reaction interpretation needed to assess candidate origin.",
            "findings": [
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                "id": "reaction-to-candidate-link",
                "name": "Reaction-to-candidate link",
                "description": "Associate the candidate with target and projectile isotopes, the proposed reaction channel, and the original experimental record.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Which target, projectile, and proposed reaction channel support production of the assigned oganesson isotope?",
                    "kind": "provenance",
                    "id": "reaction-to-candidate-link-q01"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which competing reaction products or channel assignments could account for the candidate?",
                    "kind": "boundary",
                    "id": "reaction-to-candidate-link-q02"
                  }
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            "id": "correlated-detection",
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            "description": "Assesses whether detector events belong to one physically plausible parent-decay sequence.",
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                "id": "candidate-chain-support",
                "name": "Candidate chain support",
                "description": "Record the spatial, temporal, and energy evidence used to associate the recoil and subsequent events.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "What measured positions, energies, and time intervals connect the candidate recoil with its proposed decay chain?",
                    "kind": "measurement",
                    "id": "candidate-chain-support-q01"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "How were accidental correlations, missing events, and detector limitations evaluated?",
                    "kind": "provenance",
                    "id": "candidate-chain-support-q02"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What independent events or analyses corroborate or challenge the assignment?",
                    "kind": "provenance",
                    "id": "candidate-chain-support-q03"
                  }
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        "id": "decay-and-parent-survival",
        "name": "Decay and parent survival",
        "description": "Represents isotope-specific decay evidence and the changing existence status of a candidate parent.",
        "rationale": "A detected oganesson event is a historical observation, not an enduring inventory item.",
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                "name": "Lifetime and decay assignment",
                "description": "Record decay-mode interpretations and lifetime estimates with their sparse-data limitations.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Which decay modes and daughter assignments are observed, inferred, or predicted for this isotope?",
                    "kind": "measurement",
                    "id": "lifetime-and-decay-assignment-q01"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What half-life estimate, uncertainty interval, event count, and statistical treatment support the adopted lifetime?",
                    "kind": "measurement",
                    "id": "lifetime-and-decay-assignment-q02"
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                "id": "parent-versus-descendant-state",
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                "description": "Distinguish an inferred surviving parent, an observed decay, and a period without sufficient observation.",
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                  {
                    "text": "At what reference time was the parent inferred to exist, and what observations constrain its subsequent state?",
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                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Does the available signal concern oganesson itself or a descendant requiring a neighbouring element model?",
                    "kind": "boundary",
                    "id": "parent-versus-descendant-state-q02"
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                  {
                    "text": "What survival probability and uncertainty apply over the proposed observation interval?",
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        "rationale": "Family-based analogies and calculations must not silently become measured properties of oganesson.",
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                    "text": "Does the claim concern an isolated neutral atom, an ion, or oganesson in a specified binding environment?",
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                    "text": "Is the property measured, experimentally inferred, or calculated, and which source establishes that status?",
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                    "text": "How do the treatment of relativistic effects, electron correlation, and computational uncertainty affect the prediction?",
                    "kind": "boundary",
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            "findings": [
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                "id": "phase-and-material-claim-status",
                "name": "Phase and material claim status",
                "description": "Qualify phase, density, and transition-temperature claims by material scale, conditions, and evidence.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "What temperature, pressure, material quantity, and lifetime assumptions underlie the claimed bulk property?",
                    "kind": "definition",
                    "id": "phase-and-material-claim-status-q01"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What evidence supports extrapolating from atomic calculations or detection events to a bulk phase?",
                    "kind": "boundary",
                    "id": "phase-and-material-claim-status-q02"
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        "id": "observation-and-operation-feasibility",
        "name": "Observation and operation feasibility",
        "description": "Determines what a proposed action could establish or accomplish for a transient oganesson candidate.",
        "rationale": "An operation must fit both the lifetime of the assigned isotope and the information available from very limited events.",
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            "description": "Relates a proposed observable to timing, detection probability, and expected evidence.",
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                "id": "resolvable-oganesson-observable",
                "name": "Resolvable oganesson observable",
                "description": "Assess whether the proposed measurement could distinguish the intended oganesson property or event.",
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                    "text": "Which oganesson-specific observable would the measurement resolve, and what alternative interpretation would it exclude?",
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                    "id": "resolvable-oganesson-observable-q01"
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                  {
                    "text": "How do transfer time, acquisition time, detector efficiency, and isotope lifetime constrain success?",
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                    "id": "resolvable-oganesson-observable-q02"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What could a null result establish after accounting for production and detection uncertainty?",
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            "id": "material-action-boundaries",
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                "id": "supported-manipulation",
                "name": "Supported manipulation",
                "description": "Require evidence of relevant existence, timing, and physical conditions before treating a proposed manipulation as feasible.",
                "questions": [
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                    "text": "What evidence supports the availability and survival of oganesson throughout the proposed manipulation?",
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                    "id": "supported-manipulation-q01"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Is the action demonstrated for oganesson, extrapolated from another element, or supported only by a theoretical proposal?",
                    "kind": "provenance",
                    "id": "supported-manipulation-q02"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which aspects require linked apparatus, target-material, or facility models to determine whether the action may proceed?",
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    "Which oganesson isotopes and nuclear states have accepted experimental assignments in the latest evaluated nuclear data, and which remain candidates?",
    "What lifetime estimates, decay branches, and uncertainty intervals are best supported by the available event records?",
    "Which electronic or chemical properties, if any, have direct experimental constraints specific to oganesson?",
    "How consistent are predictions of oganesson bonding and bulk phase across computational methods and assumptions?",
    "Which proposed observations or manipulations are feasible given demonstrated production rates, isotope survival, and detection efficiency?"
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