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Four chemical elements added to periodic table

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Elements 113, 115, 117 and 118 to be named by scientists from Russia, the United States and Japan.

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Van Noorden, R. Four chemical elements added to periodic table. Nature (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2016.19112

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