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A team of Japanese scientists recently embarked on a project as fascinating as it was complex: the search for element 119 of the periodic table.
In 2016, the table created by the Russian chemist Dimitri Mendeleviev in 1869 gained four new elements: 113 (nihonius), 115 (moscow), 117 (tennessino) and 118 (oganessono).
Now physicist Hideto Enyo and his team want to usher in the eighth row of the table with a metal called - so far - ununenium (one, one and nine in Latin) that no one has yet been able to synthesize.
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