{"id":190358,"date":"2016-12-02T17:33:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T15:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=190358"},"modified":"2016-12-02T17:34:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T15:34:26","slug":"4-new-elements-added-to-periodic-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/190358-4-new-elements-added-to-periodic-table.html","title":{"rendered":"4 new elements added to periodic table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four new elements have been added to the periodic table after being approved by the\u00a0International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>The new elements have been given official names following their\u00a0recognition in December 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 &#8211; previously known by their placeholder names ununtrium, ununpentium, ununseptium, and ununoctium &#8211; have been named:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nihonium (Nh)<\/li>\n<li>Moscovium (Mc)<\/li>\n<li>Tennessine (Ts)<\/li>\n<li>Oganesson (Og)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The four are superheavy elements, which means they break down into lighter elements quickly, and were synthesized between 2002 and 2010.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/190276-nestle-cuts-sugar-in-chocolate-without-changing-the-taste.html\">Nestle cuts sugar in chocolate without changing the taste<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four new elements have been added to the periodic table after being approved by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.<\/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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[36,40048,34763],"class_list":["post-190358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-active","tag-elements","tag-periodic-table"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190358"}],"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=190358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190360,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190358\/revisions\/190360"}],"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=190358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}