Of all the things humans can bestow names upon, new chemical elements are about the rarest. Our group of periodic table experts attempts to read the tea leaves and predict the names for elements 113, 115, 117 and 118.
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Burdette, S., Ball, P., Day, K. et al. Another four bricks in the wall. Nature Chem 8, 283–288 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2482
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