Editing Livermorium (section)

=== Naming ===
[[File:Robert Livermore.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Robert Livermore]], the indirect namesake of livermorium]]
Using [[Mendeleev's predicted elements|Mendeleev's nomenclature for unnamed and undiscovered elements]], livermorium is sometimes called ''eka-[[polonium]]''.<ref>{{cite journal | doi = 10.1088/0031-8949/10/A/001| title = The Search for New Elements: The Projects of Today in a Larger Perspective| journal = Physica Scripta| volume = 10| pages = 5–12| year = 1974| last1 = Seaborg | first1 = Glenn T. | bibcode = 1974PhyS...10S...5S| s2cid = 250809299}}</ref> In 1979 IUPAC recommended that the [[placeholder name|placeholder]] [[systematic element name]] ''ununhexium'' (''Uuh'')<ref name="iupac">{{cite journal|author=Chatt, J.|journal=Pure Appl. Chem.|date=1979|volume=51|pages=381–384|title=Recommendations for the Naming of Elements of Atomic Numbers Greater than 100|doi=10.1351/pac197951020381|issue=2|doi-access=free}}</ref> be used until the discovery of the element was confirmed and a name was decided. Although widely used in the chemical community on all levels, from chemistry classrooms to advanced textbooks, the recommendations were mostly ignored among scientists in the field,<ref name="Folden">{{cite web|url=http://cyclotron.tamu.edu/smp/The%20Heaviest%20Elements%20in%20the%20Universe.pdf |title=The Heaviest Elements in the Universe |author=Folden, Cody |date=31 January 2009 |website=Texas A&M University |access-date=9 March 2012 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810213232/http://cyclotron.tamu.edu/smp/The%20Heaviest%20Elements%20in%20the%20Universe.pdf |archive-date=August 10, 2014}} "</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=http://pubs.acs.org/cen/80th/print/darmstadtium.html |title= Darmstadtium and Beyond|journal=Chemical & Engineering News|author=Hoffman, Darleane C. }}</ref> who called it "element 116", with the symbol of ''E116'', ''(116)'', or even simply ''116''.<ref name="Haire" />

According to IUPAC recommendations, the discoverer or discoverers of a new element have the right to suggest a name.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1351/pac200274050787|url=http://media.iupac.org/publications/pac/2002/pdf/7405x0787.pdf|title=Naming of new elements(IUPAC Recommendations 2002)|date=2002|author=Koppenol, W. H.|journal=Pure and Applied Chemistry|volume=74|page=787|issue=5|s2cid=95859397}}</ref> The discovery of livermorium was recognized by the Joint Working Party (JWP) of IUPAC on 1 June 2011, along with that of [[flerovium]].<ref name="JWP" /> According to the vice-director of JINR, the Dubna team originally wanted to name element 116 ''moscovium'', after the [[Moscow Oblast]] in which Dubna is located,<ref name="E114&116">{{cite web|publisher=rian.ru|date=2011|access-date=2011-05-08|url=http://www.rian.ru/science/20110326/358081075.html|title=Russian Physicists Will Suggest to Name Element 116 Moscovium}}: Mikhail Itkis, the vice-director of JINR stated: "We would like to name element 114 after [[Georgy Flerov]] – flerovium, and another one [element 116] – moscovium, not after Moscow, but after [[Moscow Oblast]]".</ref> but it was later decided to use this name for [[moscovium|element 115]] instead. The name ''livermorium'' and the symbol ''Lv'' were adopted on May 23,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Loss|first1=Robert D.|last2=Corish|first2=John|title=Names and symbols of the elements with atomic numbers 114 and 116 (IUPAC Recommendations 2012)|url=http://pac.iupac.org/publications/pac/pdf/2012/pdf/8407x1669.pdf|website=IUPAC; Pure and Applied Chemistry|publisher=IUPAC|access-date=2 December 2015}}</ref> 2012.<ref name="IUPAC-names-114-116" /><ref name="IUPAC">{{cite web|title=News: Start of the Name Approval Process for the Elements of Atomic Number 114 and 116 |url=http://www.iupac.org/news/news-detail/article/start-of-the-name-approval-process-for-the-elements-of-atomic-number-114-and-116.html |work=International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry |access-date=February 22, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302173200/http://www.iupac.org/news/news-detail/article/start-of-the-name-approval-process-for-the-elements-of-atomic-number-114-and-116.html |archive-date=March 2, 2012 }}</ref> The name recognises the [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]], within the city of [[Livermore, California]], US, which collaborated with JINR on the discovery. The city in turn is named after the American rancher [[Robert Livermore]], a naturalized Mexican citizen of English birth.<ref name="IUPAC-names-114-116" /> The naming ceremony for flerovium and livermorium was held in Moscow on October 24, 2012.<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-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180204124109/http://newuc.jinr.ru/img_sections/file/Practice2016/EU/2016-07%20AGP_SHE.pdf |archive-date=4 February 2018 }}</ref>