Chemistry’s highest gatekeepers have accepted the newly proposed names for elements 113, 115, 117 and 118. Please welcome to the periodic table: Nihonium, Moscovium, Tennessine and Oganesson. Then in June of this year the scientists who discovered the super-heavy, highly-reactive elements sent Iupac their suggested names. Here are the four elements and where their names come from:• Japanese researchers proposed Nihonium, symbol Nh, for element 113 after the Japanese word Nihon, which means Japan. • A team consisting of scientists from Russia and the United States named element 115, symbol Mc, after Moscow, and element 117, symbol Ts, after Tennessee.

Source: New York Times December 01, 2016 17:06 UTC