June 2012
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Two New Elements For The Periodic Table
You can now greet by name two new residents of the period table of elements: Flerovium and Livermorium.
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry officially approved names for the elements – which sit at slot 114 and 116, respectively — on May 31. They have until now gone by the temporary monikers ununquadium and ununhexium.
Both elements are man-made, having first been...
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“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple,...”
– Charles Mingus
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