The periodic table is a very familiar site for many people, and almost all of us have spent a lot of time staring at it in Chemistry classes during our time in high school or college. The periodic table is an extremely important tool and is a great way to help students visualize a large volume of information about the elements and their relationship with each other.
During your time learning about the periodic table you likely didn’t spend a lot of time looking at the elements with an atomic number of 90 or higher. Likewise, depending on how up-to-date your table was, there were probably more than a few elements that had not been numbered or were undiscovered altogether, but this has changed.
Naming an element after its discovery is a very …show more content…
The names chosen were Moscovium (mah-SKOM’-vee-u) with the symbol Mc for element 115 and Tennessine (TEH’-neh-seen) with the symbol Ts for element 117. Moscovium was chosen to celebrate the city of Moscow and the surrounding area that is home to the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, which made major contributions to the discovery. Likewise, Tennessine was named to honor Tennessee. Tennessee is home to three institutions that helped discover these elements, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
Lastly, element 118, currently the heaviest element, was named Oganesson (OH’-gah-NEH’sun) with the symbol Og. This element was named for Yuri Oganessian who has helped make extremely important advances in transactinoid elements research. Additionally, Oganessian is now the second person to have an element named after him while still alive.
So the next question is, are we done, have we finished the periodic table? And for now, the answer is no, we still have elements that need to be discovered. We have, however, finished the seventh period of the table and are now moving on to the
During your time learning about the periodic table you likely didn’t spend a lot of time looking at the elements with an atomic number of 90 or higher. Likewise, depending on how up-to-date your table was, there were probably more than a few elements that had not been numbered or were undiscovered altogether, but this has changed.
Naming an element after its discovery is a very …show more content…
The names chosen were Moscovium (mah-SKOM’-vee-u) with the symbol Mc for element 115 and Tennessine (TEH’-neh-seen) with the symbol Ts for element 117. Moscovium was chosen to celebrate the city of Moscow and the surrounding area that is home to the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, which made major contributions to the discovery. Likewise, Tennessine was named to honor Tennessee. Tennessee is home to three institutions that helped discover these elements, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
Lastly, element 118, currently the heaviest element, was named Oganesson (OH’-gah-NEH’sun) with the symbol Og. This element was named for Yuri Oganessian who has helped make extremely important advances in transactinoid elements research. Additionally, Oganessian is now the second person to have an element named after him while still alive.
So the next question is, are we done, have we finished the periodic table? And for now, the answer is no, we still have elements that need to be discovered. We have, however, finished the seventh period of the table and are now moving on to the