Periodic Table Shall Soon Be Updated

It took over ten years after their identification for elements 114 and 116 to finally get names, being flerovium (Fl) and livermorium (Lv) respectively.The International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) this week advocated these names, which were picked out by the discovering teams. Flerovium pays homage to the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, in Dubna, Russia, where element 114 was first came to light in 1999. Similarly, Livermorium pays homage to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), in Livermore, Calif., where scientists viewed element 116 in 2000. Scientists at the Livermore facility had withdrawn a 1999 sighting of element 116 as one of the team members had what was later known as falsified data.

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The IUPAC and International Union of Pure & Applied Physics dutifully assigned the elements a place on the periodic table. The July Issue of Pure & Applied Chemistry shall have these names published. Working together, the Dubna and Livermore teams even came upon another element- element 118. William H. Goldstein, associate director of LLNL’s Physical & Life Sciences Directorate, believes that the new names given to the elements honor the partnership between the US and Russian scientists.

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