Meet the 4 Newest Elements!
Four of the heaviest elements on the periodic table are finally getting names! Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow...
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I’m gonna ask you to go to your bookshelf, and take out your old chemistry textbook. If you don’t have one of those somewhere, in your life, I feel sorry for you, because everyone should have at least one Chemistry textbook in their life. But assuming you do, open it up and take a look at the periodic table of elements. It’s probably on the inside cover. See that? It is no longer accurate. Totally outdated. Now, you have to go buy yourself a new $700 textbook because the periodic table of elements has just changed … again! Last Wednesday, the final four elements on the seventh row of the periodic table – the ones with the atomic numbers 113, 115, 117, and 118 – were finally given names. Depending on how old your textbook is, those elements ...
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I’m gonna ask you to go to your bookshelf, and take out your old chemistry textbook. If you don’t have one of those somewhere, in your life, I feel sorry for you, because everyone should have at least one Chemistry textbook in their life. But assuming you do, open it up and take a look at the periodic table of elements. It’s probably on the inside cover. See that? It is no longer accurate. Totally outdated. Now, you have to go buy yourself a new $700 textbook because the periodic table of elements has just changed … again! Last Wednesday, the final four elements on the seventh row of the periodic table – the ones with the atomic numbers 113, 115, 117, and 118 – were finally given names. Depending on how old your textbook is, those elements ...
