The Fight to Fill Out the Periodic Table
Associations Now
JANUARY 5, 2016
IUPAC, the nongovernmental entity that focuses on organizing and determining standards in chemistry, announced that four new elements—113, 115, 117, and 118—had been discovered by scientific teams working in Japan, Russia, and the United States. The complex work created an element that had a half-life of just 1/1000 of a second.
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