The periodic table has got four extra elements listed. The new elements have now been given official names and will be included in the grid.
The four new elements include nihonium, the first ever to be found by Japanese scientists.
That element – which until recently was referred to to as 113 – got its proper name from the word for Japan in Japanese – ‘nihon’, literally ‘the land of the rising sun’.
A joint team of Russian and US scientists named element 115 moscovium — symbol Mc —after the Russian capital, where much of the relevant research was conducted.
For similar reasons, they also named element 117 tennessine — symbol Ts — after the U.S. state of Tennessee.
The third one they discovered, element 118, was named oganesson — symbol Og — in homage to Russian nuclear physicist Yuri Oganessian, in recognition of his “pioneering contributions” in elements research.
