When elements 117 and 118 are finally named, should these new members of the halogen and noble gas families receive names ending in -ium as IUPAC has suggested? Brett F. Thornton and Shawn C. Burdette look at the history of element suffixes and make the case for not following this recommendation.
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Thornton, B., Burdette, S. The ends of elements. Nature Chem 5, 350–352 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1610
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