Chemistry textbooks as we know it are officially out of date, as four chemical elements have been formally added to the periodic table.
Kosuke Morita, leader of the Riken team, with the new table in Wako, Japan, on December 31, 2015.
The periodic table that we hitherto knew has been declared OUTDATED, as 4 new elements have been added to complete the scheme’s seventh row.
The new additions were formally verified by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) on 30 December 2015.
The body announced that a team of Russian and American researchers had provided sufficient evidence to claim the discovery of elements 114,115, 117 and 118. To read more, pls follow the link below
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35220823.
MSG Team.