The atomic numbers, temporary names and official names are: The periodic table is arranged by atomic ... have one valence electron and so carry a charge of +1. This charge means they "react ...

It’s now time to say hello, officially, to the four new additions to the Periodic Table of Elements. This week, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) approved the names ...

Meet nihonium (Nh), moscovium (Mc), tennessine (Ts) and oganesson (Og), the newest elements on the periodic table to receive names. But don’t get too attached to the nomenclature for these ...

Tennessee also gets a periodic table shout-out. The name for element 117 is “tennessine,” after the home state of Oak Ridge and Vanderbilt University, which was also involved in the discovery.

It's time to update your copy of the periodic ... of scientists in charge of the table. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has announced these proposed names: Nihonium and ...

and unwieldy placeholder names — ununtrium, ununpentium, ununseptium and ununoctium — assigned when the elements were added to the periodic table in December 2015, can now be scrubbed.

But don't buy a new periodic table just yet; there will be a five-month window for public comments on the names, after which they will be finalized. “It is a pleasure to see that specific places ...