A team of Japanese researchers from the RIKEN institute saw be awarded the paternity of the discovery of element 113 of the periodic table, and the right now to name the new element – announced the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC, its acronym in English). It is the first time an element is found in Asia
It was the investigator Kosuke Morita, Kyushu University, and his group who obtained this privilege on the part of two world scientific bodies -. IUPAC and International Pure and Applied Physics Union – after they managed to gather experimental data of the existence of the new element three times between 2004 and 2012, the RIKEN Nishina the accelerator Centre in Wako. Kosuke Morita received a letter from IUPAC to inform him of the news, on the last day of 2015.
“Japan’s RIKEN team met the criteria for the 113 and element will be invited to propose a name and permanent symbol “for this element, temporarily named ununtrium (Uut), indicated the IUPAC in a statement.
Also in the same statement, the IUPAC reports that Russian and American scientists, who collaborated on this research, won the right to assign the name to three other elements -. the 115, 117 and 118
The periodic table of elements, sometimes referred Mendeleev’s table (the name of the Russian scientist who created the first version in 1869, then only 60 elements), groups the chemical elements according to their chemical composition and properties.
The name of the element 113 is not yet decided, but Kosuke Morita will make a proposal in 2016, specified the RIKEN Institute Also in a statement. Japónio will be the favorite name.
This announcement comes at a good time for the RIKEN institute, which has just come out of the case of so-called “STAP cells,” in which a young researcher at the institute was accused of having falsified data and photographs to demonstrate the creation, through a novel chemical process, pluripotent stem cells from adult cells.
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