There are no known uses for nihonium. What nihonium looks like is not known because not enough has been made to see it with human eyesight. Based on trends in thePeriodic Table it could be a soft, silver colored, veryreactive metal likesodium.
On September 28, 2004, a team ofJapanese scientists said that they had made the element.[11],[12],[13]
In May 2006, in theJoint Institute for Nuclear Research made nihonium using a different method. They found theidentity of the last products of the radioactive decay of the nihonium they made.
Ununtrium was a temporaryIUPACsystematic element name meaning "one-one-three" in Latin. Scientists from Japan suggested the namejaponium (symbolJp) orrikenium (Rk).[14] However, they picked Nihonium because not only is it discovered in Japan, but it means Japan, too, as Nihon is Japan or Japanese in Japanese.
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