Time to re-write the textbooks. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has confirmed the existence of four new elements with the atomic numbers 113, 115, 117, and 118.

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In December, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry officially recognized the discovery of elements 113, 115, 117 and 118, filling out the seventh row of the periodic table (SN: 2/6 ...

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has announced that four new elements — with atomic numbers of 113, 115, 117, and 118 — will be added to the periodic table.

Since then, the Russian scientists have used a different method to reproduce element 116, but at least for now, element 118 must remain crossed off the Periodic Table.

The periodic table has been given four new elements, changing one of science’s most fundamental pieces of knowledge. Elements 113, 115, 117 and 118 will now be added to the table’s seventh row ...

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One in 5 Americans can't name a single element on the Periodic Table. Most Americans surveyed (59 percent) couldn't name more than 10 elements of the 118 that grace the Periodic Table.