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Periodic table just got tougher, heavier
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you thought you had one, you named it something," Janan Hayes,
professor emeritus at Merced College in California and former chair of
the American Chemical Society's Division of History of Chemistry, told
The Christian Science Monitor's Lisa Suhay.
It’s official. Chemistry’s highest gatekeepers have accepted the newly proposed names for elements 113, 115, 117 and 118.
Please welcome to the periodic table: Nihonium, Moscovium, Tennessine and Oganesson.
Scientists
first synthesized the new elements between 2002 and 2010, but it wasn’t
until December of 2015 that the International Union of Pure and Applied
Chemistry officially recognized the discoveries. Then in June of this year the scientists who discovered the super-heavy, highly-reactive elements sent Iupac their suggested names.
After
a five-month waiting period when members of the public could ask
questions about the new elements, the foursome were approved on
Wednesday, formally filling their boxes in chemistry’s most fundamental
table.
Here are the four elements and where their names come from:
• Japanese researchers proposed Nihonium, symbol Nh, for element 113 after the Japanese word Nihon, which means Japan.
•
A team consisting of scientists from Russia and the United States named
element 115, symbol Mc, after Moscow, and element 117, symbol Ts, after
Tennessee.
•
Element 118 was named Oganesson, symbol Og, for Yuri Oganessian, a
prolific element hunter, by the Russian team that discovered it.
With
their confirmation, we bid adieu to the periodic table’s seventh row
placeholders. Good bye ununtrium. Adios ununpentium. Sayonara
ununseptium. Arrivederci ununoctium. We can also put to rest suggestions
like Lemmium, Octarine and Trumpium.
Correction: December 1, 2016
An earlier version of this article misstated the symbol for Moscovium. It is Mc, not Ms.
An earlier version of this article misstated the symbol for Moscovium. It is Mc, not Ms.
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