Element 113, the superheavy element was synthesized by Professor Kossuke Morita's group at Japan's RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-based science.
It was pure perseverance and years of careful experimentation from 1980s that finally lead to this success. As this event has been recognized by International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry as well as International Union of Pure and Apllied Physics, Japan gets to pick the name for this element to replace the unpronouncable place holder UNUNTRIUM (Uut).
This is the significance of this finding in Professor Mortia's own words,
"From the viewpoint of chemistry, it's very important since we are filling in one space in the periodic table, and there may be only 173 spaces there. So far, fewer than 120 [elements] have been discovered." "It's also important symbolically.
All the elements before were discovered in the West, and it is wonderful that we now have an element discovered in Asia."
Read more from Asian Scientist Magazine at: http://www.asianscientist.com/2016/01/topnews/kosuke-morita-element-113-iupac-iupap/
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It was pure perseverance and years of careful experimentation from 1980s that finally lead to this success. As this event has been recognized by International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry as well as International Union of Pure and Apllied Physics, Japan gets to pick the name for this element to replace the unpronouncable place holder UNUNTRIUM (Uut).
This is the significance of this finding in Professor Mortia's own words,
"From the viewpoint of chemistry, it's very important since we are filling in one space in the periodic table, and there may be only 173 spaces there. So far, fewer than 120 [elements] have been discovered." "It's also important symbolically.
All the elements before were discovered in the West, and it is wonderful that we now have an element discovered in Asia."
Read more from Asian Scientist Magazine at: http://www.asianscientist.com/2016/01/topnews/kosuke-morita-element-113-iupac-iupap/
The below photo is a copy from the above news source:
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