Editing Flerovium (section)

===Naming===
[[File:RUSMARKA-1660.jpg|thumb|right|Stamp of Russia, issued in 2013, dedicated to [[Georgy Flyorov]] and flerovium]]
Per [[Mendeleev's predicted elements|Mendeleev's nomenclature for unnamed and undiscovered elements]], flerovium is sometimes called ''eka-[[lead]]''. In 1979, IUPAC published recommendations according to which the element was to be called ''ununquadium'' (symbol ''Uuq''),<ref name="iupac">
{{cite journal
|last=Chatt|first=J.
|date=1979
|title=Recommendations for the naming of elements of atomic numbers greater than 100
|journal=[[Pure and Applied Chemistry]]
|volume=51|issue=2|pages=381–384
|doi=10.1351/pac197951020381
|doi-access=free
}}</ref> a [[systematic element name]] as a [[placeholder name|placeholder]], until the discovery of the element is confirmed and a permanent name is decided on. Most scientists in the field called it "element 114", with the symbol of ''E114'', ''(114)'' or ''114''.<ref name="Haire" />

Per IUPAC recommendations, the discoverer(s) of a new element has the right to suggest a name.<ref>
{{cite journal
|last=Koppenol|first=W. H.
|date=2002
|title=Naming of new elements (IUPAC Recommendations 2002)
|url=http://media.iupac.org/publications/pac/2002/pdf/7405x0787.pdf
|journal=[[Pure and Applied Chemistry]]
|volume=74|page=787|issue=5
|doi=10.1351/pac200274050787
|s2cid=95859397
}}</ref>
After IUPAC recognized the discovery of flerovium and livermorium on 1 June 2011, IUPAC asked the discovery team at JINR to suggest permanent names for the two elements. The Dubna team chose the name ''flerovium'' (symbol Fl),<ref>
{{cite news
|last= Brown|first=M.
|date=6 June 2011
|title=Two Ultraheavy Elements Added to Periodic Table
|url=https://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/06/new-heavy-elements/#more-62779
|magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]
|access-date=7 June 2011
}}</ref><ref name="livesc">
{{cite web
|last=Welsh|first=J.
|date=2 December 2011
|title=Two Elements Named: Livermorium and Flerovium
|url=http://www.livescience.com/17287-element-names-flerovium-livermorium.html
|website=[[LiveScience]]
|access-date=2 December 2011
}}</ref> after Russia's [[Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions]] (FLNR), named after Soviet physicist [[Georgy Flyorov]] (also spelled Flerov); earlier reports claim the element name was directly proposed to honour Flyorov.<ref name="E114&116">
{{cite web
|publisher=[[RIA Novosti]]
|date=26 March 2011
|access-date=8 May 2011
|url=http://www.rian.ru/science/20110326/358081075.html
|title=Российские физики предложат назвать 116 химический элемент московием
|trans-title=Russian physicists have offered to call 116 chemical element ''moscovium''
}} Mikhail Itkis, the vice-director of JINR, stated: "We would like to name element 114 after [[Georgy Flerov]] – flerovium, and the second [element 116] – moscovium, not after Moscow, but after [[Moscow Oblast]]".</ref> In accordance with the proposal received from the discoverers, IUPAC officially named flerovium after Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, not after Flyorov himself.<ref name="IUPAC-names-114-116" /> Flyorov is known for writing to [[Joseph Stalin]] in April 1942 and pointing out the silence in scientific journals in the field of [[nuclear fission]] in the United States, Great Britain, and Germany. Flyorov deduced that this research must have become [[classified information]] in those countries. Flyorov's work and urgings led to the development of the USSR's own [[Soviet atomic bomb project|atomic bomb project]].<ref name="livesc" /> Flyorov is also known for the discovery of [[spontaneous fission]] with [[Konstantin Petrzhak]]. The naming ceremony for flerovium and livermorium was held on 24 October 2012 in Moscow.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://newuc.jinr.ru/img_sections/file/Practice2016/EU/2016-07%20AGP_SHE.pdf|title=Synthesis of superheavy elements|last=Popeko|first=Andrey G.|date=2016|website=jinr.ru|publisher=[[Joint Institute for Nuclear Research]]|access-date=4 February 2018|archive-date=4 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180204124109/http://newuc.jinr.ru/img_sections/file/Practice2016/EU/2016-07%20AGP_SHE.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In a 2015 interview with Oganessian, the host, in preparation to ask a question, said, "You said you had dreamed to name [an element] after your teacher Georgy Flyorov." Without letting the host finish, Oganessian repeatedly said, "I did."<ref name="OTR">{{Cite interview|last=Oganessian|first=Yu. Ts.|interviewer-last=Orlova|interviewer-first=O.|title=Гамбургский счет|trans-title=Hamburg reckoning|date=2015-10-10|access-date=2020-01-18|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdnvOxxDeKM| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211117/ZdnvOxxDeKM| archive-date=2021-11-17| url-status=live|language=ru|publisher=[[Public Television of Russia]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
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