You'll soon see four new names on the periodic table of the elements, including three that honour Moscow, Japan and Tennessee. The names are among four recommended Wednesday by an international ...

You'll soon see four new names on the periodic table of the elements, including three that honour Moscow, Japan and Tennessee. The names are among four recommended Wednesday by an international ...

Dennis Ferrier reports. – Jun 8, 2016 NEW YORK – You’ll soon see four new names on the periodic table of the elements, including three that honour Moscow, Japan and Tennessee.

The seventh row of the periodic table is complete, resplendent with four new names for the elements 113, 115, 117 and 118. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (the organization ...

After a 5-month review, the names of four new elements have been approved, so Nihonium, Moscovium, Tennessine, and Oganesson can now officially join the periodic table. The discovery of 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.

Teams of researchers from the U.S., Russia, and Japan have finally released the proposed names of the four new elements in the periodic table – the elements 113, 115, 117, and 118.

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