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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.
Amazing decision to not include the names of the four elements in a summary telling us that the four elements were just named.
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so $250 for a new college text book to cover this
Electron shells matter for chemical properties, not for nuclear stability.
Ah! Ah! Godwinium!
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I'm disappointed that ElementMcElementyface wasn't an option...
It's rare that elements are named after people, though there are a few examples. Places just seem less controversial. There's a gentleman's agreement that Element 137 should be Feynmanium, and I will be gravely disappointed if he doesn't eventually get that honor. (For those who don't know, "137", referring to the fine structure constant, is to physicists what "42" is to geek culture - chances are good it's the combination to a physicist's briefcase, for example.)
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By a Polish Scientist working in Paris. Marie Curie? You might have heard of her?
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Now that the seventh shell is complete the next man-made element will have to be in a new shell.
Does this make it much harder, or impossible, to create element 119?
Naah. Piece of cake. It'll be called Trumpium. It'll be a huuuuge element. Really classy.
It's primary chemical properties are to insult any other elements that compete in chemical reactions with it.
It is radioactive, and emits particles called twitterons, but only at 3 AM local time.
Its spectral properties are orange. Just orange.
Its electron-shell structure displays a comb-over to cover the lack of structure in certain areas around it.
And finally, all of the elements that it forms with are right-handed. Do I even need to say that?
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