Japanese scientists welcome addition of element to periodic table –video

A team of Japanese scientists have met the criteria for naming a new element, the synthetic highly radioactive element 113, more than a dozen years after they began working to create it. Kosuke Morita, who was leading the research at the government-affiliated RIKEN Nishina Centre for Accelerator-Based Science, was notified of the decision on Thursday by the US-based International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)

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