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Of all the things humans can bestow names upon, new chemical elements are about the rarest. Our group of periodic table experts attempts to read the tea leaves and predict the names for elements 113, 115, 117 and 118.

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  1. Shawn C. Burdette is in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, Massachusetts 01609, USA,

    Shawn C. Burdette

  2. Philip Ball is a freelance writer based in London, UK,

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  3. Kat Day is a freelance writer who maintains The Chronicle Flask blog, https://thechronicleflask.wordpress.com/,

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  4. Eric Scerri teaches chemistry at UCLA and is the author of The Periodic Table, Its Story and Its Significance,

    Eric R. Scerri

  5. Brett F. Thornton is in the Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden,

    Brett F. Thornton

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Burdette, S., Ball, P., Day, K. et al. Another four bricks in the wall. Nature Chem 8, 283–288 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2482

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