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Name for element 111

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Submitted by WebElements on 2 June 2004 - 7:25am.

IUPAC have made a provisional recommendation http://www.iupac.org/reports/provisional/abstract04/corish_311004.html about the name for element 111. To quote:

"A joint IUPAC-IUPAP Working Party (JWP) has confirmed the discovery of element number 111 and this by the collaboration of Hofmann et al. from the Gesellschaft f

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Submitted by Anonymous on 2 June 2004 - 7:46am.

Hmmm...... "copper", "silver", "gold" and, erm, "roentgenium".

I'm sure they'll all be one big happy family -)

So are those 3 atoms of Rg they've made all beautifully lustrous and a fancy colour like the rest of the group? ;-)

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Submitted by Anonymous on 3 June 2004 - 9:53pm.

Thanks for the update. I'll make the changes to our own in-house PT.

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