The researchers proposed the name nihonium to celebrate it. Because they decay extremely quickly, scientists found it difficult to reproduce them.Įlement 113 is the first to be discovered in an Asian country. Until now, these elements had temporary names and symbols on the periodic table as their existence was hard to prove.

Other researchers are already hard at work searching for elements that will fill out the eighth row, as well as working to consolidate how copernicum and heavier elements are identified, according to IUPAC.Īll four elements are not found in nature, and were synthetically created in laboratories. IUPAC also prefers the names translate easily across major languages. These names keep with the longstanding tradition of being named after a mythological concept or character (including an astronomical object), a mineral or similar substance, a place or geographical region, a property of the element or a scientist.Īnd of course, they must end in “-ium,” “-ine,” or “-on” depending on the grouping of elements they belong to. IUPAC provided the discoverers with guidelines to assist them in creating the names. If you feel strongly about these names, the union invites you to provide comments and feedback here. The discoverers of the elements were invited to propose the names, and now a public review of the names begins, expiring on November 8, 2016. AFP PHOTO / KAZUHIRO NOGI / AFP / KAZUHIRO NOGI (Photo credit should read KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images) KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/AFP/Getty Imagesįour new elements to be added to periodic table

Japan's Riken Institute said a team led by Kosuke Morita was awarded the rights from global scientific bodies - the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) - after successfully creating the new synthetic element three times from 2004 to 2012. A Japanese research team has received naming rights for new atomic element 113, the first on the periodic chart to be named by Asian scientists, the team's institute said December 31. Kosuke Morita, the leader of the Riken team, smiles as he points to a board displaying the new atomic element 113 during a press conference in Wako, Saitama prefecture on December 31, 2015.

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