In honor of scientist and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), the discovering team have suggested the name "copernicium" with the element symbol "Cp" for the new element 112. In honor of ...

This release is available in German. IUPAC accepted the name proposed by the international discovering team around Sigurd Hofmann at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum. The team had suggested "Cp" as the ...

The periodic table - the chart studied by generations of children and chemists - is to get a little more crowded. Scientists yesterday announced they are to add a 'super heavy' element, called ...

The periodic table of elements just got a bit heftier today (Nov. 4), as the names of three new elements were approved by the General Assembly of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.

Copernicium, a heavier relative of zinc, cadmium and mercury, is element 112 and its symbol is Cn. LOS ANGELES – There’s a new element officially in town and its name is copernicium, after the ...

Element 112 did not invite a lot of interest when theoretical nuclear physicists predicted the famous island of stable superheavy elements — elements that have a number of nucleons that leads to ...

There’s a new element officially in town and its name is copernicium, after the 16th-century Polish scientist Nicholas Copernicus. It is element 112 and its symbol is Cn. Copernicium, a heavier ...

The heaviest recognized chemical element with the atomic number 112 was discovered at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and -- since February 19, 2010, -- officially carries the name ...

(Nanowerk News) On Monday July 12, 2010, the chemical element discovered at GSI was christened "copernicium". This symbolic christening celebrated the element's eternal entry into the periodic table ...