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News is just in; the periodic table of element has now listed four new elements under 113, 1115, 117 and 118.

It seems that science textbooks all around the globe might be automatically outdated because of this. Also, the seventh row of the periodic table is now complete.

As per Science Alert, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) have reported a confirmation of the discovery of elements 113, 115, 117 and 118.


The statement stated that the four new elements were in "accordance with the criteria for the discovery of elements of the IUPAP/IUPAC Transferium Working Group." And that the new elements were discovered by scientists from Russia, USA and Japan.

In agreement with IUPAC's statement, the one who discovered elements 115, 117 and 118 is the Russian- American team that worked at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

On the other hand, IUPAC credited a team if scientists from the Riken Institute in Japan for discovering element 113.

Element 113's temporary working name is Ununtrium [Uut.] Element 115 is Ununpentium [Uup,] element 117 is Ununseptium [Uus] and element 118 is Ununoctium [Uuo.]

As reported by The Verge, Kosuke Morita, who led the team at Riken said that his team will now "look to the uncharted territory of element 119 and beyond."

The four new elements were said to be verified on December 30 by IUPAC.

Reportedly, the new elements listed in the seventh row of the periodic table could not be found in nature and are synthetic in nature. Elements 113, 115, 117 and 118 could only be produced inside a laboratory and are proved to decay in a matter of seconds.

The four new elements were said to have temporary names for the time being and are positioned on the seventh row because scientists have tried to create them for several times.

As stated in The Guardian, the four new elements listed are the first to be added to the periodic table since 2011, the year when elements 114 and 116 were added and named.