Flerovium, Livermorium -- Expected Additions To 'Elements' Family

Flerovium and Livermorium are the names proposed for the two new additions to the Periodic Table -- element  114 and element 116.


The two elements were first discovered when teams of scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, Russia, in collaboration with each other smashed calcium ions into the element curium to obtain element 116 which quickly decays to element 114. The latter was also created separately by using a plutonium target instead of curium.


Flerovium is named after the physicist Georgiy Flerov while Livermorium is named after the Californian laboratory where it was discovered. These names are officially going to be endorsed by the table's governing body in another five month's time.