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butthurt writes:

from the elementy-mcelementface dept.

Nature reports (doi:10.1038/nature.2016.20069) that the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has taken proposals from the discoverers of four new chemical elements:

• Nihonium and symbol Nh, for the element with Z =113,
• Moscovium with the symbol Mc, for the element with Z = 115,
• Tennessine with the symbol Ts, for the element with Z = 117, and
• Oganesson with the symbol Og, for the element with Z = 118.

The proposed names honour Japan, Moscow, Tennessee and the Russian nuclear physicist Yuri Oganessian. Before the names become official, there is to be a five-month period during which the public may comment upon them. The symbol Ts was chosen because Tn is already in use for ²²⁰Rn, known as thoron (probably because it results from the decay of thorium).

Further Information:
provisional recommendations

Original Submission

1. "butthurt" - https://soylentnews.org/~butthurt/
2. " Nature reports" - http://www.nature.com/news/four-new-element-names-proposed-for-periodic-table-1.20069
3. "the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUPAC
4. "Yuri Oganessian" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Oganessian
5. "provisional recommendations" - http://iupac.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/names-and-symbols-of-elements.pdf
6. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=14072

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