Chemistry Nexus

IUPAC have modified provisional recommendations for naming new elements as follows:

A procedure is proposed to name new chemical elements.  After the discovery of a new element is established by the joint IUPAC-IUPAP Working Group, the discoverers are invited to propose a name and a symbol to the IUPAC Inorganic Chemistry Division.  Elements can be named after a mythological concept, a mineral, a place or country, a property or a scientist.