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Nihonium

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/November 17, 2018 by Ealdgyth - Talk 16:42, 24 October 2018 (UTC)



Nihonium is a synthetic chemical element with symbol Nh and atomic number 113. It is extremely radioactive; its most stable known isotope, nihonium-286, has a half-life of about 10 seconds. In the periodic table, nihonium is a transactinide element in the p-block. It is a member of the 7th period and is placed in group 13.

Nihonium was first reported to have been created in 2003 by a Russian–American collaboration at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia, and in 2004 by a team of Japanese scientists at Riken in Wakō, Japan. The confirmation of their claims in the ensuing years involved independent teams of scientists working in the United States, Germany, Sweden, and China, as well as the original claimants in Russia and Japan. In 2015, the IUPAC/IUPAP Joint Working Party recognised the element and assigned the priority of the discovery and naming rights for the element to Riken, as it judged that they had demonstrated that they had observed element 113 before the JINR team did so. The Riken team suggested the name nihonium in 2016, which was approved in the same year. The name comes from the common Japanese name for Japan (日本).
 * Most recent similar article(s): Dubnium, which is over in July 2018, long ago.
 * Main editors:, , , and perhaps some others, but mostly User:Double sharp.
 * Promoted: September 8th 2018
 * Reasons for nomination: It's getting near the time when nihonium was officially named, at around November 2016, with almost a two-anniversary celebration.
 * Support as nominator. Qwertyxp2000 (talk &#124; contribs) 21:33, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment - The blurb still needs to a bit shortened in my opinion, but the content in this blurb seems good at the moment. Qwertyxp2000 (talk &#124; contribs) 21:42, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment The article needs to be Wikilinked in the subpage. Mojo0306 (talk) 19:26, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Doh! Forgot about that. Qwertyxp2000 (talk &#124; contribs) 01:39, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Support as I have no other qualms. Mojo0306 (talk) 21:11, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Support - yes, well worthy. 23:49, 16 November 2018 (UTC)