Periodic Table's 7th row finally completed, gets 4 new elements
Element named as 113, 115, 117 and 118 are the latest ones to feature in the list, ever since elements 114 and 116 were added in 2011.
While a team of Russian-American scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California discovered elements 115, 117 and 118, a team from Japan were credited with the discovery of element 113.
The discoveries were acknowledged on Dec 30 by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, an US-based global body that governs the terminology of the elements.
Professor Jan Reedijk, president of the Inorganic Chemistry Division of IUPAC was quoted as saying by The Guardian, "The chemistry community is eager to see its most cherished table finally being completed down to the seventh row."
He further said, "IUPAC has now initiated the process of formalising names and symbols for these elements temporarily named as ununtrium, (Uut or element 113), ununpentium (Uup, element 115), ununseptium (Uus, element 117), and ununoctium (Uuo, element 118)."
According to the IUPAC, element 113 will be the first element in the table to be named in Asia.
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