Periodic table's seventh row finally filled as four new elements are added

theguardian ^ | 01/03/2016

[BenLurkin]

The elements, discovered by scientists in Japan, Russia and America, are the first to be added to the table since 2011, when elements 114 and 116 were added.

The four were verified on 30 December by the US-based International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, the global organisation that governs chemical nomenclature, terminology and measurement.

IUPAC announced that a Russian-American team of scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California had produced sufficient evidence to claim the discovery of elements 115, 117 and 118.

The body awarded credit for the discovery of element 113, which had also been claimed by the Russians and Americans, to a team of scientists from the Riken institute in Japan.

[SoFloFreeper]

Monk is pleased.

[Rockpile]

Flying saucers are made of ufoium.

[Telepathic Intruder]

The first row or two of column 11 is about all I’m able to obtain.

[left that other site]

Upsidasium?

Admiral Wrong-Way Peachfuzz discovered it on Mt. Flatten.

Tested successfully at Nobikini Atoll.

[N. Theknow]

[outofsalt]

What you are seeing is spontaneous decay of Gramaticum to the base element of Textium. Slamming two words together results in the contextual imbalances which can no longer be supported in HTML.

[N. Theknow]

An element of Surprisium!

[Trillian]

Can anyone tell me the atomic weight of Bolonium?

[outofsalt]

"Does that mean that #2 is now (S)He?"

Hy

[kjam22]

Scientists who can tell us how old the universe is, how it was created, all about the expansion, new and exciting earth like planets circling stars 30 light years from here....string theory, yada yada yada..... and they still haven’t discovered all of the elements here on this planet? Okay.....

[kjam22]

A man made element is a contradiction of terms....

[FroggyTheGremlim]

But now we need a rewrite?

[Blood of Tyrants]

Not if it isn’t found naturally.

[Lake Living]

Don’t forget
asininium
absurdium
madeupium
unbelievium

[MomwithHope]

Crustanium. Discovered by Hillary in her pantsuit Ole Crusty.

[dhs12345]

So, then the elements are created by experiment with the belief that they would exist anyway. Or maybe they exist in great numbers if right the conditions exist, for example: they exist in a super nova, etc.? Or maybe during the formation of a black hole?

[dhs12345]

But apparently exist outside of the experiment that created them otherwise, I guess then that we couldn’t call them elements.

[dhs12345]

Yup.

Someone contact Tom Lehrer. Yes, he is still alive.

[sparklite2]

[BenLurkin]

Maybe they would still be elements — they just wouldn’t be elemental?