In 2012, scientists chose the formal name flerovium for element 114, after the Flerov Lab at Dubna’s Joint Institute of Research. And they chose the formal name livermorium for element 116, after the Lawrence Livermore Lab in the US. The elements were discovered there. Kosuke Morita, who led the research at RIKEN, said his team now planned to “look into the undiscovered element 119 and beyond.” Jan Reedijk of IUPAC said: “Chemists want to see the periodic table finally completed down to the seventh row.”
How were the formal names for elements 114 and 116 chosen?
They were named after the lab where they were discovered They were named after scientists who were founders of the field They were named after scientists at IUPAC They were named after their chemical properties