{"id":150723,"date":"2016-01-04T12:01:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T10:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=150723"},"modified":"2016-01-04T12:03:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T10:03:01","slug":"four-new-elements-added-to-the-periodic-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/150723-four-new-elements-added-to-the-periodic-table.html","title":{"rendered":"Four new elements added to the periodic table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four new elements have been added to the periodic table, following their verification by the\u00a0International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2016\/jan\/04\/periodic-tables-seventh-row-finally-filled-as-four-new-elements-are-added\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><\/strong>, the new additions\u00a0are the first elements to be added to the table since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Man-made elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 now make up the\u00a0seventh row of the periodic table, and have all been given placeholder names until official names are revealed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To scientists, this is of greater value than an Olympic gold medal,&#8221; Ryoji Noyori, a Nobel laureate in chemistry, told The Guardian.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More science news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/150415-spacex-has-done-it-launches-and-lands-falcon-9-rocket.html\">SpaceX has done it &#8211; launches and lands Falcon 9 rocket<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The periodic table has received four new additions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":150727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[36,34763],"class_list":["post-150723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-active","tag-periodic-table"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150725,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150723\/revisions\/150725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}