Nashville Professor Helps Discover New Element. Newslink

Vanderbilt University Professors Joseph Hamilton & A.V. Ramayya have discovered Element 117, tentatively named Tennessine.

That’s awesome and I like the name; I hope it is made permanent.

I note that the next element, oganesson, named for Russian physicist Yuri Oganessian, has the chemical symbol Og. :smiley:

Couldn’t they have at least suggested the symbol be **Tn **?

Tn is already Tungsten

No, the symbol for Tungsten is “W”.

Wolfram!

The “T’s” are:

Ta=Tantalum
Tb=Terbium
Tc=Technetium
Te=Tellurium
Th=Thorium
Ti=Titanium
Tl=Thallium
Tm=Thulium

So I guess the petition to name 118 Lemmium has failed :frowning:

Has Tom Lehrer been contacted? I foresee a bit of re-writing for him.

Newslink seems a curious name for an element
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I smite thee.

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