For most chemists, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), is the organization that gives elements their names and decides what terminology researchers should use in ...

IUPAC will then publish the name on its website, giving scientists and the public six months to scrutinize and comment on it. After all the suggestions Hofmann received last year for element 112 he ...

The elements are shown with provisional names, not their new proposed names. (Courtesy: IUPAC) By Hamish Johnston The periodic table could soon be graced by four new symbols (Nh, Mc, Ts and Og) as the ...

We are pleased to announce that the name and symbol of the new element 113, “nihonium” and “Nh” which our group proposed to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), passed the ...

Now that these four new names have been proposed, IUPAC will submit them for a five-month public review before officially inscribing them on the periodic table.