Japonium or ununtrium? Japanese scientists gain right to name new element

Friday, January 1, 2016 - 10:31 in Physics & Chemistry

A team of Japanese scientists have met the criteria for naming a new element, the synthetic highly radioactive element 113, more than a dozen years after they began working to create it.

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