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12.2 What are the correct names of recently-discovered elements? (Chemistry)
The Transfermium Working Group was established in 1986 by the International
Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and the International Union of
Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). The working group published several
reports, and then recommended that elements should not be named after living
persons [1]. This greatly upset the USA - who wanted to name an element after
G. Seaborg. After protracted negotiations, a compromise selection of names
was finally approved by the IUPAC Commission on Nomenclature in Inorganic
Chemistry, the IUPAC Inorganic Division, the IUPAC Bureau, and the selection
was eventually ratified by the IUPAC Council meeting in Geneva during August
1997 [2].
101 Mendelevium Md D. Mendeleev (Russia)
102 Nobelium No Nobel Institute (Sweden)
103 Lawrencium Lr E. Lawrence (USA)
104 Rutherfordium Rf E. Rutherford (NZ)
105 Dubnium Db Dubna = Russian Research Centre
106 Seaborgium Sg G. Seaborg (USA)
107 Bohrium Bh N. Bohr (Denmark)
108 Hassium Hs Latin name for German state of Hesse
109 Meitnerium Mt L. Meitner (Austria)
Note that Hesse is where the German heavy-element laboratory is based.
The Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung (GSI) was responsible for the
first man-made creation of elements 107-110. The compromise will now move
attention to the naming the recently-discovered elements 110-112.
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