After reviewing these two elements for three years, the committee that representing the governing bodies of physics and chemistry has decided to put the elements currently known as ununhexium and ununquadium. Ununhexium has the atomic number of 116 with the mass of 292 making it the heaviest element on the table. Ununquadium on the other hand has the atomic number of 114 and the mass of 289. Both of these elements are highly radioactive.
The elements, which are created in lab by means of nuclear fusion, are credited to two teams that successfully presented the proof for the two elements to be put on the periodic table. The two teams are Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna Russia and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. The ununhexium was created by hurtling curium with 96 protons together with calcium which has 20 protons. This element decays into 114 protons shortly after but they manage to create ununquadium by hurtling plutonium (94 protons) also with calcium.
As per usual, the one who found the element in periodic table gets the honor to name the element. In this case, the Russian team gets most of the credit hence the name will probably be something Russian but the committee hope that they will not come out with some weird and hard name. The properties of these two elements have yet to be discovered but the two elements ignite the possibility of what the physicists and chemists debate about the so called "island of stability."
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