The periodic table is expanding! Two elements, first discovered in 1998 and 2000, have been recognized by an international committee of chemists. The names of the new elements are their atomic numbers pronounced in Latin: Element 114 is Ununquadrium (Uuq), Latin for “one-one-four”, and element 116 is Ununhexium (Uuh), Latin for “one-one-six.”
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