The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is responsibility

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The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is responsibility for approving all new elements added to the Periodic Table. The most recent element #112, was added in 2009, after 12 years of review. Your task is to design you own element. According to IUPAC tradition, elements are named after: a mythological concept or character (including an astronomical object); a mineral, or similar substance; a place or geographical region; a property of the element; or a scientist.

You must provide the following for your element:

a name, and why you chose this name:

a chemical symbol

an atomic number, atomic weight, and mass number (must be greater than 113)

how or where your element was discovered

what are the applications for your element

Explanation / Answer

a I chose an element called moscovium it is the synthetic chemical element having the symbol Mc. It haa a properties similar to its homologues nitrogen and phosphorus.

Atomic number of moscovium is 115 and atomic mass is 288 u and atomic mass is 283.

Discovery of Moscovium. Research scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), California first made element 115, moscovium, in Dubna, Russia in 2003. This how moscovium was discovered.

Applications of moscovium -

* It is used in scientific studies for research purpose

* It is used to make nihonium.

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