Three New Elements Named: Darmstadtium, Roentgenium and Copernicium

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“There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium/And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium…”

So starts the 1959 song “Elements,” in which the Harvard math professor and musician set the periodic table to music. But now the old chestnut, beloved by science students for the last half century, needs more verses: Three newly discovered elements were given names on Friday by the General Assembly of theInternational Union of Pure and Applied Physics at a meeting in London.