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Names proposed for four new elements

In January of this year, four new elements were added in the periodic table. Now, the suggested names of these four elements have been revealed by scientists.
The suggestions are nihonium (Nh), moscovium (Mc) tennessine (Ts) and oganesson (Og). To date they have been referred to by the number of protons in each atom – 113, 115, 117 and 118, respectively..
The names must be approved by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry after a consultation period of five months.
The four elements were created synthetically and are named by the scientists who discovered them. They are also the first ones to be added to the table since 2011.
Here are the meanings of the names:
Nihonium refers to the Japanese name for Japan, since it was discovered at the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator Science. (Pictured above) Kosuke Morita, researcher of the institute, who led the discovery of the element, points to a periodic table during a press conference at the institution in Wako, northwest of Tokyo, Japan on June 9.
Moscovium refers to the Moscow region, where the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research is located in Dubna, Russia.
Tennessine refers to Tennessee, U.S., as it was discovered by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Vanderbilt University.
Oganesson is named after nuclear physicist Yuri Oganessian, who played an important role in search of new elements including this one.