What Are The Four New Elements On The Periodic Table?
Groups of scientists from all over the world created four new elements, but they only exist for a short time and only in a lab. So what can these elements do?
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did you hear? THERE’S FOUR NEW ELEMENTS. Dang it, now I have to change my shower curtain. Hey guys Julia here for DNews
Main This week the The International Union of Pure
and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) announced that four new elements will be joining the other
114 on the periodic table of elements. The addition of elements 113, 115, 117 and 118
means the seventh row or period is now complete! They still don’t have proper names yet,
they’re just called by their numbers. So where did these as yet unnamed elements
come from? Scientists from Lawrence Livermore laboratory in California and the Riken institute
in Japan smashed atoms together in particle accelerators and these new elements were created
when the two nuclei fused. But the new elements existed only for a fraction ...