#ununtrium

As befits the true emperor of destruction, I insist on the finest vintages of energon wine; the purest energon, filtered through circuit boards grown from substrate-vines of the highest pedigree, where they pick up traces of the rarest of metals—the tang of rhodium, the sweetness of iridium, and even the piquant heat of astatine. Though Brushguard's talents were best suited to the creation of deadly toxins and entangling creeper bombs, he also carefully selected the vines that were grown in the personal chipyard of Decepticon High Command, which was surely the finest on all of Cybertron!

Of course, while such wine will suffice to quench my thirst, you asked of my personal favorite. For that, there can be but one answer: sanguis fulgur, the favored drink of the old warrior-kings of Kaon. It is by nature a rare delicacy, as to make it, a fine energon wine must be fortified with the innermost energon of a hated nemesis who has been vanquished in battle. It is then sealed with a cube of highly radioactive material—in my experience, nihonium serves best—in a barrel made from depleted uranium, and then left to age over two thousand years. This irradiation, coupled with the power of innermost energon and the knowledge that it contains within it the lifeblood of a truly worthy foe, makes drinking sanguis fulgur a truly unparalleled experience.

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The proposed name for element 113, or ununtrium, has not yet officially been accepted, but it likely to be nihonium: named for the common Japanese word for the name of their own country, in honor of the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science in Japan where the element was first created. 

Element 113 on the periodic table, nihonium, has one hundred and thirteen protons and electrons. A synthetic element, nihonium can only be found on Earth in the particle accelerators used to produce it. It has just over five known radioisotopes, the most stable of which has a half-life of around twenty seconds.

On the periodic table, nihonium technically falls into the p-block transactinide elements, however not enough experiments have been carried out on the element to confirm that it follows the trends of the elements that come before it.

Nuclear physics: Chemist complement periodic table of four elements

The most famous table of science is growing: the periodic table of the elements is complemented with the elements 113, 115, 117 and 118 – therefore the seventh row is complete.

The international chemists Association IUPAC of the introduction of new elements has agreed for the first time in four years. Textbooks must be supplemented now – periodic table of the chemical elements is growing to four…

Nobody asked me, but here’s some halfway realistic suggestions for what to name Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118. 

Z=113: Japanium, or something along those lines.  This is the only element discovered in Japan, and it might be years or even decades before they get another one.  One of the traditions in the naming of the transuranic elements is to use geographic locations relevant to the discovery.  Thus Americium, Californium, Berkelium, Dubnium, etc.  More specific locales could be used for future Japanese discoveries, but I think they should start by naming this one after the entire country. 

Z=115: Joliotium, after Frederic (1900-58) and Irene Joliot-Curie (1897-1956).  The Joliot-Curies continued the work of Irene’s parents, and they eventually discovered artificial radioactivity.  Up to that point, all the radioactive substances known to science were naturally occurring elements like uranium and its decay products.  The Joliot-Curies found that you could bombard aluminum with alpha particles from a naturally radioactive source, and convert the aluminum into a radioactive isotope of phosphorus.  This was important for a number of reasons.  First, it showed that the alchemical concept of transmutation was actually possible.  Second, it opened up a new front in the growing field of radiochemistry and nuclear physics.  Third, it revealed a way to generate new kinds of radioactive materials, giving doctors a wider range of options for radiotherapy.  Scientists knew that radium could be effective against cancerous tumors, but radium is very rare, and it has a long half-life and the body has a hard time getting rid of it.  Phosphorus-30, on the other hand, could be manufactured at will, and it has a short half-life, and the body can excrete it just like the usual atoms of phosphorus-31.  Fourth, the Joliet-Curie’s discovery is the basic principle behind the synthesis of super-heavy elements.  I suggest using 115 for the name because the Joliet-Curie’s discovery involved synthesizing radioactive isotopes of nitrogen and phosphorus, and Element 115 occupies the same column on the periodic table. 

Z=117: Paynium, after Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979), British-American astrophysicist who first determined what stars are made out of.  Payne’s career paved the way for women in astronomy and astronomy as a science in general.   This would continue a tradition of naming elements after important physicists like Copernicus, as well as women in science like Lise Meitner and Marie Curie.  I know, I know, she didn’t write the Discworld novels or Triple H’s theme song, but on the plus side she figured out what the universe is made out of, so you know. 

By Nicholas St. Fleur, NY Times, Jan. 4, 2016

Since the 19th century, European and American discoveries have monopolized the naming of elements on the periodic table. It is evident in entries like francium, germanium, scandium, polonium, europium, californium, berkelium and americium.

But now, for the first time, researchers in Asia will make an addition to chemistry’s most fundamental catalog.

Scientists from the Riken institute in Japan will bestow an official name on Element 113, currently known by the placeholder name ununtrium, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced last week.

The organization said that studies published by the Japanese scientists from 2004 to 2012 give the team the strongest claim to having discovered the element. The declaration comes more than 12 years after the Japanese team first attempted to synthesize the superheavy element, by firing beams of zinc at a thin bismuth film.

Led by Kosuke Morita, the group began to bombard bismuth atoms in a particle accelerator at 10 percent the speed of light in 2003. A year later, they successfully fused two atomic nuclei from these elements, creating their first nucleus of Element 113, but it decayed in less than a thousandth of a second. In 2005, the team produced Element 113 in a second event, but the chemistry union did not consider the demonstration strong enough to denote a discovery.

In 2012, the team finally produced strong evidence that they had synthesized Element 113. Over the course of those nine years, the beam was active for 553 days and launched more than 130 quintillion zinc atoms, according to Nature.