The periodic table of chemical elements, often called the periodic table, organizes all discovered chemical elements in rows (called periods) and columns (called groups) according to increasing atomic ...

Four new elements added to periodic table have formal names Ben Guarino Updated December 2, 2016 — 7.35amfirst published at 7.30am Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size ...

Some element symbols are simple. For example, oxygen is O.Others aren’t as straightforward. For example, the element symbol for iron is Fe, from the latin word ferrum for iron.

In honor of scientist and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), the discovering team have suggested the name "copernicium" with the element symbol "Cp" for the new element 112.

It is represented by the symbol ‘Z’. Atoms of the same atomic number and chemical properties combine to form an element. Different elements are formed by different types of atoms.

Today, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) began a public review of the name and symbol—nihonium and Nh—that the research group led by Kosuke Morita, Group Director of the ...