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From Discover Physics & Math:
116 and 114 can now officially be filled in.
What's the News: On Wednesday, two new elements were officially welcomed to the periodic table.
The newcomers are elements 114 and 116, and they've just passed a three-year deliberation by the Joint Working Party on Discovery of Elements, a team of chemists and other scientists who sort through the evidence behind claims of newly discovered elements. These two don't have official names yet, and for now they are going by the placeholders ununquadium and ununhexium, which refer to the number of protons in their nuclei.
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