Did you know..as many as 6 new elements have been added to the Periodic Table of the Elements as recently as 1999.
Believe it or not, the newest additions to the Periodic Table of Elements still don't have names. These six elements occupy positions 110, 111, 112, 114, 116, and 118 in the Los Alamos National Laboratory Periodic Table. The last three are listed as "mysterious elements." The site assures us that "these elements have... been produced and can exist."
Human-made element 110 was first produced in 1994 at the Heavy Ion Research Laboratory, in Darmstadt, West Germany, by fusing together atoms of nickel and lead. Elements 111 and 112 were discovered at the same lab in 1994 and 1996 respectively. The newest named element, Meitnerium (109), was created in Germany in 1982, by researchers using fusion techniques to make new, heavy nuclei...
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