Chemical elements which make up mobile phones placed on ‘endangered list’
Chemical elements which make up mobile phones are included on an ‘endangered list’ in a landmark version of the Periodic Table to mark its 150th anniversary. The European Chemical Society (EuChemS) launched in January 2019 the unique updated table to highlight the elements which could run out within a century.
Setting Their Table: Women & the Periodic Table
The International Symposium “Setting Their Table: Women and the Periodic Table” will be held from 11-12 February 2019 in Murcia, Spain.
IUPAC approved the names of the elements 113, 115, 117, and 118
On 28th November 2016, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced that the elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 are now formally named.
The name nihonium with the symbol Nh for element 113 was proposed by the discoverers at RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science (Japan); the name came from Nihon which is one of the two ways to say “Japan” in Japanese, and literally mean “the Land of the Rising Sun”.
IUPAP/IUPAC Joint Working Party on the Discovery of Elements Validates Claims for Four New Elements
The claims for four new elements have been validated in two new reports from the IUPAC/IUPAP Joint Working Party (JWP) and accepted for publication in Pure and Applied Chemistry. The addition of the four, namely elements 113, 115,117, and 118, represents a significant milestone because it completes the seventh row of the Periodic Table. The new elements add to the remarkable progress in extending the periodic table following 114 and 116 validated in 2011, and element 112 validated in 2009.
