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摘要

>lt's officially time to update your periodic table of the elements. On 31 May, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry approved the names proposed last year for elements 114 and 116; they will be known as Flerovium (Fl) and Livermorium (Lv), respectively. The names honor two leading institutions in heavy element research: Russia's Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.