Showing posts with label periodic table. Show all posts
Showing posts with label periodic table. Show all posts

Saturday, December 3, 2016

New entries in the periodic table of elements

As much as I am a geek about many things, I have to say with much sorrow that I had difficulty with chemistry. I still love it, though, in a "No, Macgyver, it doesn't work like that, the Mythbusters are better at it" sort of way (haters and trolls: I'm just having fun there).

Still, a new periodic table!

"Following tradition, the new additions to the seventh row of the periodic table received names that paid homage to either the region of their discovery or a person, and their suffixes reflected chemical consistency. Nihonium, Moscovium, and Tennessine are named after places where they were discovered: Nihon (the Japanese word for Japan), Moscow (Russia’s capital), and Tennessee (the U.S. state), respectively. Oganesson was named after Yuri Oganessian, a Russian nuclear scientist."

https://futurism.com/we-have-a-new-periodic-table-of-elements/