Periodic Table Updated With Flerovium & Moscovium
The periodic tablet that we all mugged up as physics students is now ready to trouble the younger generation. Two new elements have made an entry to the periodic table and there names are yet to be decided. Flerovium & Moscovium are their proposed names but these are not final. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) will surely come up with better sounding names (we hope) and make them official soon. The IUPAC recognized elements 114 and 116 and credited the discovery to the researchers and scientists from Russia's Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in California.
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The elements have atomic masses 289 & 292 respectively which makes them the heaviest elements known to humans until now. The fat-boy crown was with copernicium (285) and roentgenium (272) earlier. The elements decay within a fraction of a second which makes it very difficult for the researchers to study their chemical properties and characteristics. However, the elements have survived the 3-year review process of IUPAC for official recognition and finally made an entry into the periodic table. Currently, the official names for these newly discovered elements have not been finalized. They are currently being called ununquadium and ununhexium respectively, but the proposed names are Flerovium(after Georgy Flyorov) & Moscovium (inspired from Moscow). IUPAC has said that they are likely to approve the proposed names for these elements.
Via: IUPAC
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The elements have atomic masses 289 & 292 respectively which makes them the heaviest elements known to humans until now. The fat-boy crown was with copernicium (285) and roentgenium (272) earlier. The elements decay within a fraction of a second which makes it very difficult for the researchers to study their chemical properties and characteristics. However, the elements have survived the 3-year review process of IUPAC for official recognition and finally made an entry into the periodic table. Currently, the official names for these newly discovered elements have not been finalized. They are currently being called ununquadium and ununhexium respectively, but the proposed names are Flerovium(after Georgy Flyorov) & Moscovium (inspired from Moscow). IUPAC has said that they are likely to approve the proposed names for these elements.
Via: IUPAC
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