TOKYO: The periodic table got larger Wednesday after four new elements were officially named and added to the chart, including ‘nihonium’ – the first ever to be discovered by Japanese scientists. The periodic table, pored over by science students the world over, arranges chemical elements in the order of their atomic number. All the discovered elements after 104 are synthetic ones produced through laboratory experiments. For similar reasons, they also named element 117 tennessine – symbol Ts – after the US state of Tennessee. With the latest discoveries, the periodic table is now complete down to the seventh row.

Source: New Strait Times December 01, 2016 09:11 UTC