Periodic Table Expands With 4 Elements Named After Japan, Moscow, Tennessee

Periodic Table Expands With 4 Elements Named After Japan, Moscow, Tennessee

On November 30, 2016, the periodic table got larger after four new elements were officially named and added to the chart, including ‘nihonium’ which is the first ever element to be discovered by Japanese scientists. Newly included elements are: nihonium, moscovium, tennessine and oganesson. The new

name for element 113, nihonium, symbol Nh, a highly radioactive element with an extremely short half-life, comes from Japan’s name in Japanese ‘nihon’, literally ‘the land of the rising sun’.

iv. A joint team of Russian and US scientists named element 115 moscovium,  symbol Mc  after the Russian capital

v. They also named element 117 tennessine,  symbol Ts  after the US state of Tennessee.

vi. The third one they discovered, element 118, was named oganesson, symbol Og  in homage to Russian nuclear physicist Yuri Oganessian, in recognition of his “pioneering contributions” in elements research.

vii. The periodic table, studied by science students the worldwide, arranges chemical elements in the order of their atomic number.

viii. The discovery of these four new elements has a strong candidature for this year’s Nobel Chemistry Prize.

 element 113,,nihonium , Japanese ‘nihon’, literally ‘the land of the rising sun’. 

 element 115 , moscovium  Russian and US scientists ,  Mc  after the Russian capital

element 117 tennessine , symbol Ts  after the US state of Tennessee.

element 118,oganesson , symbol Og  in homage to Russian nuclear physicist Yuri Oganessian