Thursday, September 5, 2013

Element 115 Discovered

Researchers in Switzerland recently synthesized Ununpentium, element 115 on the periodic table.  Unlike an earlier Russian application, the IUPAC accepted the findings of these researchers as a discovery.  This is the first odd-numbered unnamed element to be successfully synthesized, but I'm not sure if that's significant.  You can read more about this in a Forbes article.

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