Throw Away Your Chemistry Textbooks! (SEE WHY)
Throw Away Your Chemistry Textbooks! (SEE WHY)
Throw Away Your Chemistry Textbooks! (SEE WHY). Chemistry Textbooks
Become Outdated As Scientists Discover Four New Elements. Four elements
are soon to be added to the periodic table, finally completing the
seventh row making every science textbook out of date according to
education giant Pearson, the
CNBC has reported.
A spokesman for Pearson said, “We regularly review our course
materials and textbooks to ensure they are up to date, and any changes
that need to be made will be done at the appropriate moment to ensure
least disruption to schools and students.”
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry on December
30, verified the addition of the elements 113, 115, 117 and 118 to the
table’s seventh row making it complete.
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This marks the first time new atoms have been added to the periodic table since 2011, according to the report.
Professor Jan Reedijk, President of the Inorganic Chemistry Division
of IUPAC said the chemistry community is eager to see its most cherished
table finally being completed down to the seventh row.
“The chemistry community is eager to see its most cherished table finally being completed down to the seventh row.
“IUPAC has now initiated the process of formalizing names and symbols
for these elements temporarily named as ununtrium, (Uut or element
113), ununpentium (Uup, element 115), ununseptium (Uus, element 117),
and ununoctium (Uuo, element 118),” he said in a statement.
The proposed names and symbols will be checked by the Inorganic
Chemistry Division of IUPAC for consistency, translatability into other
languages, possible prior historic use for other cases, etc.
New elements can be named after a mythological concept, a mineral, a place or country, a property or a scientist.
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After Divisional acceptance, the names and two-letter symbols will be
presented for public review for five months, before the highest body of
IUPAC, the Council, will make a final decision on the names of these
new chemical elements and their two-letter symbols and their
introduction into the Periodic Table of the Elements.
The statement released by IUPAC also quoted the President, Dr. Mark
C. Cesa, as saying, “As the global organization that provides objective
scientific expertise and develops the essential tools for the
application and communication of chemical knowledge for the benefit of
humankind, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry is
pleased and honored to make this announcement concerning elements 113,
115, 117, and 118 and the completion of the seventh row of the periodic
table of the elements.
“we are excited about these new elements, and we thank the dedicated
scientists who discovered them for their painstaking work, as well the
members of the IUPAC/IUPAP Joint Working Party for completing their
essential and critically important task,” he added.
Following the adoption of the motion on “JAMB’s new admission
policy” which was sponsored by Senator Joshua Lidani of Gombe South and
seven others,
the Nigerian senate has asked the senate committee on education to
invite the leadership of Joint Admission And Matriculation Board to
ascertain and look into the circumstances surrounding the new JAMB
Admission Policy.
