The Spring 2025 Newsletter of the Inorganic Chemistry Division is now available! Download PDF
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Back cover: One of the most exciting and visible activities of the Inorganic Chemistry Division has been the naming of new elements after their discovery has been validated (and temporary names and symbols proposed by their discoverers). The Japanese postage stamp illustrated above, issued in 2017, recognizes the discovery of element 113 (nihonium, Nh) at the RIKEN research institute by a team led by Prof. Kosuke Morita from Kyushu University. It shows that nihonium was produced by the bombardment of a bismuth target with accelerated zinc ions, and that the new element quickly decays by releasing alpha particles in a series of six steps that eventually yields mendelevium.