OSBORN IN THE NEWS -NEW ELEMENTS ADDED TO THE periodic table
ASHLEE BARACY TV10 WBNS PUBLISHED: 01/06/16 06:35 PM EST COLUMBUS, Ohio
Every science textbook is now out of date after four new elements were added to the periodic table.
"These are some really weird fascinating elements that are actually not found in nature. We build them," LindenMcKinley teacher Randy Osborn said. "They're so unstable that as soon as you build them they fall apart, so they're really hard to study and they tend to be radioactive."
Osborn has been teaching science for more than 25 years and added that the four new elements (elements 113, 115, 117 and 118) recognized by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry makes the seventh row of the periodic table complete.
This is the first time the table has been updated since 2011, but these are not the first man-made elements to be added. The two that were added five years ago, Flerovium and Livermorium, cannot be found in nature either. Right now these recent discoveries are temporarily identified by Latin numbers: ununtrium or element 113, ununpentium or element 115, ununseptium or element 117 and ununoctium or element 118.
"They're named according to how many protons they have. 'Ununseptium' is Latin for the number of protons in the middle. Then they can name them after they've learned about them for a period of time," Osborn said.
New elements can be named after a mythological concept, mineral, place, country, property or even a scientist.
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LINDEN MCKINLEY HOLDS HOMECOMING PEACE RALLY, ADDRESSING VIOLENCE IN THE COMMUNITY
BY: COURTNEY YUENPOSTED: OCT 21, 2016 / 11:43 PM EDT / UPDATED: OCT 21, 2016 / 11:43 PM EDTCOLUMBUS (WCMH) – THE LINDEN MCKINLEY STEM ACADEMY COMMUNITY IS COMING TOGETHER TONIGHT ADDRESSING VIOLENCE IN THEIR AREA AND ACROSS COLUMBUS.JUST LAST WEEK, TWO STUDENTS WERE SHOT AS THEY WERE LEAVING SCHOOL FOR THE DAY. POLICE SAY TWO 16-YEAR-OLD SUSPECTS ARE IN CUSTODY.SCIENCE TEACHER AND REGISTERED NURSE RANDY OSBORNE HELPED SAVE A 15-YEAR-OLD STUDENT’S LIFE LAST WEEK AFTER HE WAS SHOT ON THE SCHOOL’S FRONT LAWN.BUT OSBORNE SAYS TONIGHT, HOMECOMING HAS BEEN FILLED WITH POSITIVITY. “I WAS IN THE BUILDING AND SOMEONE SAID ‘MR. OSBORNE COME QUICKLY… SOMEONE’S BEEN SHOT,'” HE SAYS.“THERE’S BEEN A LOT OF STRAINED EMOTIONS, BOTH IN TEACHERS AND STUDENTS, AND IT’S SO NICE TO COME TOGETHER IN PEACE AND TO CELEBRATE THE GOOD THINGS,” HE SAYS.
