The periodic table organizes chemical elements based on atomic weight, electron configurations, and chemical properties, ...

Nihonium (Nh), a radioactive synthetic element, joined the periodic table of elements in November five years ago with the atomic number 113. More than a century ago, a similar sounding but ...

But that was enough. Element 113 was the first element to have been discovered in Asia. It was given the name nihonium after Nihon—a name for Japan that translates to “land of the rising sun.” ...

The seventh row of the table was completed in 2016 when Tennessine, Nihonium, Moscovium, and Oganesson were added. Elements can be named after places, minerals, mythological figures, or people.

The Nishina Center promotes researches on the synthesis of superheavy elements with one prime example being nihonium, researches in the fields of magic numbers, nucleosynthesis in the universe, and ...