Have We Found All The Elements?

This week Reactions takes a look at how science and chemistry is helping to create man-made elements. Particle accelerators have the ability to create new elements, but have we hit a point where we've found all the elements? Isotopes, physics, and particle accelerators, oh my!

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Producer:
Elaine Seward

Writer:
Sam Lemonick

Executive Producer:
Adam Dylewski

Scientific consultants:
Dawn Shaughnessy, Ph.D.
Darcy Gentleman, Ph.D.
Kyle Nackers

Sources:
https://iupac.org/iupac-is-naming-the-four-new-elements-nihonium-moscovium-tennessine-and-oganesson/
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/confirmation-of-four-new-elements-completes-seventh-row-of-periodic-table-/9312.article
http://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i2/Seventh-Row-Periodic-Table-Complete.html
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EAM2UvObJQuy3UCEe3-Ilc3fSJwx1Tvs9-yMHrzpVcY/edit?usp=sharing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItrYpHsymfI
https://www.wou.edu/las/physci/ch412/perhist.htm
http://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/history
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092640X12000848

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