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.”
What does the RIKEN research team plan to do now?
Try to discover additional new elements Further look into the element they discovered Finally move beyond completing the seventh row of the periodic table Figure out uses for the newly uncovered elements