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Article: Two new elements may join the periodic table.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- February 2, 2004
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Byline: Lisa M. Krieger
SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Two new guests may soon take a seat at chemistry's periodic table, introduced Sunday to the world by a team of scientists in Livermore and Russia.
You won't encounter these new elements in your everyday life. They're man-made, not found in nature. Their lives are briefer than the blink of an eye. They're very rare; only four atoms of each have been created. And their usefulness to society remains a question mark.
But the news of their rare discovery has excited chemists, who delight in adding new names to the historic table even as the rest of us struggle to memorize the old ones.
"I feel ...