Scientists have officially named the four newest elements of the periodic table

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With only 118 elements in the periodic table, it’s a rare day in science when four new elements get bestowed their names. Yet that’s exactly what happened yesterday (Nov. 30) when the official chemistry body announced that it had approved the proposed names for four elements discovered and confirmed over the past decade: Nihonium (Nh), Moscovium (Mc), Tennessine (Ts), and Oganesson (Og) for elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 respectively.

With these four elements named, the seventh row of the iconic periodic table is now complete.

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http://qz.com/850284/four-new-elements-nihonium-moscovium-tennessine-and-oganesson-have-been-officially-added-to-the-periodic-table/

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1. Interesting that they chose to give Ts the same -ine ending as in F, Cl, Br, I, and At ...

despite an expectation that it might be more of a metal than a non-metal -- apparently, its observed properties suggest it is more of a metal, justifying the more common -ium ending given to metallic elements.

Why Tennessee ? Home of Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL) and Vanderbilt. Here's the connection between those two and Oganesson (same -on ending as most of the other noble gases: Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe, Rn. Helium is the exception because it was discovered spectroscopically and not recognized initially as a non-metal.):

In February 2005, the leader of the JINR team—Yuri Oganessian—held a colloquium at ORNL and attended a symposium at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.) celebrating the career of a long-standing collaborator of Oganessian, Joseph Hamilton, where Oganessian, Hamilton, and James Roberto (then the deputy director for science and technology at Oak Ridge) established a collaboration between JINR, ORNL, and Vanderbilt;[12] the team at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore, California, U.S., was soon invited to join.[15]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessine

Oganessian is only the second individual -- after Glenn T. Seaborg -- to give his name to an element while still living. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Oganessian

(ETA: This was reported back in June, FWIW)

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3. Note that Og should not be confused with ...