Periodic Table’s 7th Row Completed With Discovery Of Four New Elements | IFLScience

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1. January 4, 2016 at 11:46 pm

   Tomi Engdahl says:

   7th Period of the Periodic Table Complete
   http://hackaday.com/2016/01/03/7th-period-of-the-periodic-table-complete/

   For the last fifty or so years, the periodic table has been incomplete. Elements after uranium on the periodic table have been synthesized for the past few decades, but there were always a few missing blocks in the periodic table. These elements, with atomic numbers of 113, 115, 117, and 118 comprise the missing parts of period 7 – the lowest row – of the periodic table. Now, IUPAC, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, has announced the verification of the discoveries of the last four elements of the seventh period of the periodic table.

   With the announcement of the verification of discovery for these elements, they will get a name. Currently elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 are known as Ununtrium, Ununpentium, Ununseptium, and Ununoctium, respectively. What these elements will be named depends on the proposals by the discoverers of these elements.

   Discovery and Assignment of Elements with Atomic Numbers 113, 115, 117 and 118
   http://www.iupac.org/news/news-detail/article/discovery-and-assignment-of-elements-with-atomic-numbers-113-115-117-and-118.html

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