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butthurt [soylentnews.org] writes:

from the elementy-mcelementface dept.

Nature reports [nature.com] (doi:10.1038/nature.2016.20069) that the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry [wikipedia.org] 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 [wikipedia.org]. 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 [iupac.org]

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