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Four New Elements Finally Get Their Official Names, Added To Periodic Table (universityherald.com)
Scientists have updated the periodic table to add four new elements, namely: Nihonium, Moscovium, Tennessine and Oganesson. The super-heavy elements discovered by scientists from Japan, Russia, and America, complete the seventh row of the table. Their inclusion also marks the first additions since 2011. From an article on University Herald: Now that the new elements have their names, the seventh row of the periodic table is now complete. The approval was done by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). The elements were confirmed back in January. They were assigned temporary names and symbols: ununtrium (Uut), ununpentium (Uup), ununseptium (Uus), and ununoctium (Uuo). It was noted that the teams of Russian, American and Japanese researchers behind the discoveries were given the task of naming the elements that they uncovered. They submitted their proposals in June.
...that HomerSimpsonium was a viable name.
Should have named them Blinkium, Pinkium, Inkium and Clyde.
Pity they gave up so soon, I'm convinced Ytterby had still more names in it,
I'm disappointed that ElementMcElementyface wasn't an option...