Four new names will soon appear on the periodic table of elements where scientists have finally decided to name these recently discovered elements after scientists who hail from different parts of the globe such as Japan, Moscow in Russia and in Tennessee, United States.

These new elements will now be known as moscovium after Moscow, nihonium after Japan, tennessine after Tennessee and oganesson after a Russian scientists which are also recommended by an international scientific group just this week.

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The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry is in charge of naming chemical element names and now, they have presented these new elements for public review that are based on the names that have been submitted by the scientists who have discovered them.

To date these four elements are known by their Latin atomic numbers, ununtrium as 113, ununpentium as 115, ununseptium as 117 and ununoctium as 118, where they are all set to complete the seventh row in the periodic table after the organization have verified their discoveries by the end of December.

What kinds of names are chosen for newly discovered elements? This time around, Tennessee is the second state from the U.S. to be named as an element, after California. Names can be derived from names of places such as americium, or after mythological gods such as titanium, even persons like scientists such as einsteinium, or element traits like chlorine, after chloros which is Greek for a greenish yellow color.

These new elements now include, moscovium (Mc) for 115 element and tennessine (Ts) for 117 element. The team who discovered these two elements are from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Vanderbilt University in Tennessee along with the Lawrence Livermore National in California.

On the other hand, nihonium (Nh) is for 113 element, which was the first element discovered in Japan and the first Asian nation as well, as nihon means another way to pronounce the country's name in their native tongue. Last but not least, oganesson (Og) for 118 element will honor the Russian physicist, Yuri Oganessian.

These new element names will be open for public comment until November 8.

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