Chemists meet in Ottawa to vote on 'darmstadtium'. You have full access to this article via your institution. Chemical element 110, which was discovered in 1994, will finally get a name tomorrow. A ...

At the 42nd General Assembly in Ottawa, Canada, the IUPAC Council officially approved the name for element of atomic number 110, to be known as darmstadtium, with symbol Ds. At the 42nd General ...

This article was updated Friday 11/4 at 11:00 p.m. EDT. The periodic table of elements just got a bit heftier today (Nov. 4), as the names of three new elements were approved by the General Assembly ...

The periodic table of elements just got a bit heftier Friday, as the names of three new elements were approved by the General Assembly of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. Elements ...

The Heavy Ion Research Laboratory at Darmstadt, Germany has a thing for elements. It started off with bohrium in 1981. Meitnerium came in next in 1982, followed by hassium in 1984, roentgenium in 1994 ...

A new “superheavy” element is being added to the periodic table. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has decided that the as-yet-unnamed element finally meets the conditions ...

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