What is it about?
It is about tennessine and oganesson. Four elements were to be named in 2016, of these one is a halogen, another a noble gas. Under the guidelines of 2002, their names would end in -ium. It was felt that the suffices -ine and -on, respectively, would be better.
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Why is it important?
As we wrote, these endings reflects and maintain historical and chemical consistency.
Perspectives
A retrospective: I think that, in 2002, no members of the Commission on the Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry imagined that the synthesis of new elements would get to the end of the period.
Professor Willem H. Koppenol
Swiss Federal Insitute of Technology (ETH)
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This page is a summary of: How to name new chemical elements (IUPAC Recommendations 2016), Pure and Applied Chemistry, April 2016, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/pac-2015-0802.
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