Periodic Table New Elements Announced; Russia, America And Japan Take Credit!
The Periodic Table now has four new elements added to its seventh row!
Scientists from Russia, Japan and America have discovered four new super-heavy chemical elements. They have been verified by experts and formally been added to the table. These are the first elements to be added to the periodic table after the previous addition of new elements 114 and 116 (that happened in 2011). These four elements were verified by the US-based International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry (IUPAC- the universal organisation that governs chemical nomenclature, measurement and terminology).
IUPAC has announced that a Russian team of scientists (from the Joint Institute of Nuclease Research, Dubna and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California) has produced sufficient evidence to claim the discovery of elements 115, 117 and 118. The discovery of the element 113 was claimed by a team of Japanese scientists from Riken Institute.
According to The Guardian, Kosuke Morita, the Lead research scientist at Riken said his team has now planned to ""look to the unchartered territory of element 119 and beyond."
"To scientists, this is of greater value than an Olympic gold medal," former president and Nobel chemistry Laureate Ryoji Noyori said.
In the coming months, the new additions which currently bear placeholder names will be named officially by the respective teams that discovered them.
It is also said that IUPAC has initiated the process of formalising the nomenclature and symbols of these new elements added to the Periodic Table that take temporary names such as:
- ununtrium, (Uut or element 113),
- ununpentium (Uup, element 115),
- ununseptium (Uus, element 117), and
- ununoctium (Uuo, element 118).
The Periodic Table, now has four new elements added to it, namely the elements with atomic numbers 112, 115, 117 and 118. With these new additions, the periodic table finally completes the table's seventh row. And thereby making all the science textbooks around the globe instantly outdated!