When elements 114 and 116 were given formal names in 2012, scientists chose flerovium and livermorium respectively, after the Flerov Lab at Dubna’s Joint Institute of Research and the Lawrence Livermore Lab in the US, where the elements were discovered. Kosuke Morita, who led the research at RIKEN, said his team now planned to “look into the uncharted territory of element 119 and beyond.” Jan Reedijk of IUPAC, said: “The chemistry community is eager to see the 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