Ununennium, element 119, is the lowest-numbered unknown, and therefore unnamed, element. Many people have name ideas for this element, and so this page will be a place for name ideas. (When 119 is discovered and officially named, at the bottom there will be an official name section with the official name in it.) If your name idea is serious, meaning there is a rhyme and reason and it follows IUPAC rules, it goes in the Serious Name Ideas, while if it is random or silly, it goes in Joke Name Ideas. Please respect this classification. If you put your element name in Serious Name Ideas, please state a reason for the name.
Please do not delete the names that other people put unless they are vulgar or rude. If you have an account, you are encouraged to put your account name next to the idea so people know who made it, though it is not required if you would like to stay anonymous.
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IUPAC Naming Rules[]
According IUPAC rules, an element should be named after:
- a place (often the place where the discovery specimen came from)
- a mineral (often the mineral in which the element was discovered)
- a mythological character, or an astronomical object
- a property of that element or of the mineral in which it was discovered
- or a scientist
There are two exceptions to naming elements for scientists. First, the person honored should not be aware of it (i.e, dead). Seaborgium and oganesson are exceptions to this rule; but they are both quirks of history and national pride. It is unlikely to happen again. Second, the discoverer of an element is expected to resist the temptation to name it after themselves.
(From My Suggested Names for Elements 119 to 145)
Serious Name Ideas[]
@G likes your Cut ideas[]
Newtonium (Nt/Nw)[]
Named after Sir Isaac Newton, the discoverer of gravity, as it was discovered in a lab due to its strange gravitational properties (fiction) *(Not to be confused with another idea named after George Newton)*
Superfrancium (Sf)[]
Named after Francium but on the periodic table but heavier
Sednium (Sd)[]
Named after the trans-Neptunian object Sedna, which is very far from the Sun. This is because ununennium would be so "far" from hydrogen and helium. (Helium is named after the Sun.)
Kaishibium (Kb) - @JustusRobinColdFusion[]
Uue will be a very special element: the first member of the first row of the periodic table to consist entirely of synthetic elements. I strongly feel that Uue should have a name honoring that very special status. Also, i think we should diversify our sources of element-names (ENs); have ENs derived from non-European languages, or related to places outside of Europe or North America.
I therefore propose, for Uue, the name *kaishibium, pronounced [kaiˈʃɪbiəm] (using International Phonetic Alphabet, IPA; [ai] is the vowel of "time"; ˈ goes right before the syllable carrying the main stress). (* means a contemplated name for a future element.) From Chinese kāishǐ "to begin" + bā "eight"; it is the first element in row #8 of the periodic table. The chemical symbol (ChS) should be Kb, not e.g. Ka, because b is the first letter of the second part (bā) of the etymon of said EN. This is supported by precedent: e.g. protactinium = Pa not Pc, because it is "prot-" + "actinium" (it decays into actinium).
Another reason the ChS should not be Ka. I think a future element (not Uue, of course) should called *klaprium, after Martin Heinrich Klaproth, who discovered uranium: a discovery i consider especially important because uranium is the last element that occurs naturally in significant amounts, so uranium is a gateway to the strange and wonderful world of transuranic elements ("exotic elements", i call them). *klaprium should have the ChS Ka, not Kl, for legibility; lowercase L/l looks too much like capital I/i. (More generally, L/l should be dispreferred as the second letter of ChS's.) As for other ChS's for *klaprium: Kr is already taken, by krypton; and Kp could reasonably stand for krypton, so less convincing.
What should element #120 and beyond be called? Elements Bk-No are in alphabetical order (AO); this makes them easier to learn. #120-136 should also have their names in AO. Preferably also their ChS's in AO; it looks nicer, and i think it will make said elements even easier to learn. (One of #120-136 should be called *klaprium, see above.) #137 should be called *feynmanium (ChS Fy), after Richard Feynman; #137 is already unofficially called that. #138 should start another string of elements with their names (and preferably also ChS's) in AO.
Döbereinerium (Dm)[]
Named after Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, whose work foreshadowed the periodic table. Would be the first element name with an umlaut (diaeresis) in it.
Comment by @JustusRobinColdFusion[]
An element named after Döbereiner, should be called *doebereinium, symbol Do: ö would be broken up into oe (as is often done for German-language names), and "-reiner" would be shortened to "-rein" for purposes of the element-name (EN), just as "Oganessian" is shortened to "oganess-" for the EN, oganesson. ("*" is my notation for a contemplated EN, i.e. name for an element beyond oganesson, as opposed to the accepted name of a known element.)
Ghiorsium (Gh)[]
Named after Albert Ghiorso, who is credited as discoverer of 12 elements, and who led a number of experiments which confirmed other superheavy element discoveries.
Chancourtoium (Ch)[]
Named after the first person to arrange elements by atomic weight, geologist Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois.
Newtonium (Nw)[]
Named after George Newton, obviously.
Coronium (Ci)[]
Named after the solar corona, and not COVID-19 Note: An "element" was identified in the solar spectrum and named "coronium". The spectral lines proved to come from highly-charged ions of familiar elements such as Fe, so "coronium" turned out to be a false claim. The custom in element naming is that, once used, a name cannot be reintroduced. (see "hahnium")
Janium (Jn)[]
Named after Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and endings. This would be fitting as Janium would be at the beginning of period eight, but possibly the end of the table or the beginning of the end of the table.
Rikenium (Rk)[]
RIKEN in Japan has been attempting to synthesize this element since 2018. I think it is likely it will be made in RIKEN, so rikenium would be a good name choice.
Comment by @JustusRobinColdFusion[]
As of my writing this (July 7, 2024), RIKEN has been trying to synthesize it for six years, without success. It is well known that the current method of synthesizing superheavy elements, namely bombarding a heavier element with a lighter one, is brutally inefficient, due to Coulomb repulsion. And it is, intuitively, predicted that element 119 will be much harder to synthesize than #118, oganesson (of which only 6? atoms were produced). This creates serious doubts that RIKEN will succeed; more generally, serious doubts that #119 will be discovered at all, at least via said bombardment method.
I instead propose a different method of synthesizing element 119 and beyond (or more generally, any desired element or isotope): cold fusion, aka LENR, low-energy nuclear reactions. Hot fusion uses brute force to overcome the Coulomb barrier, requiring brutally hot temperatures that make it very hard for hot fusion to be energy-profitable, even though it has been touted for decades as the solution to our energy problems. But cold fusion (LENR) somehow (the mechanism isn't totally clear) simply neutralizes the Coulomb barrier, enabling nuclear reactions at or near room temperature. There is a large and growing body, of research showing that LENR is real, and of literature on the subject. I myself am going into the field of LENR, with the aim of synthesizing elements and isotopes; i believe that the possibilities offered by LENR, are endless.
Russium (Rs)[]
Named after the European (and Asian) country of Russia, the place where Dmitri Mendeleev, the creator of the periodic table, was born.
Comment by @JustusRobinColdFusion[]
Actually, Russia already has an element named after it: ruthenium. Also, Mendeleev also has an element named after him: mendelevium. Altogether, seven countries have an element named after them:
- Cyprus: copper.
- France: two elements actually: francium and gallium.
- Germany: germanium.
- Japan: nihonium.
- Poland: polonium.
- Russia: ruthenium.
- United States: americium.
Wakoium (Wa)[]
Named after Wakō, the city where RIKEN, the lab that discovered Nihonium, and is trying to make element 119, is at.
Nishinium / Nishinanium (Nm)[]
Named after Yoshio Nishina, Riken is considering this name for Ununennium when it is discovered. It may have symbol Nm according to this wikipedia talk: Talk:Ununennium#Possible_future_name. This is not my idea and I apologize if my english is kinda bad.
Source: https://x.com/ChemistryKit/status/1300132408390451200
Comment by @JustusRobinColdFusion[]
If an element is to be named after Nishina, it should be called *nishinium; the form *nishinanium seems needlessly long. In which case its chemical symbol should be Nn; currently there is no precedent for a chemical symbol consisting of a repeat letter, but i think such a chemical symbol is totally fine; in fact, given that we may have a whole flood of new elements coming, we need as many chemical symbols available as possible, and that includes repeat letters. The chemical symbol Nn would be preferable to Nm: since new elements usually have names ending in -ium, "m" is available as the second letter of the chemical symbol of any element with a name beginning with "n", while "n" won't always be available for said purpose.
However, i don't think element 119 should be name *nishinium; it should be called by a name honoring its very special status: the first element of the first row to consist entirely of artificial elements. However, i sympathize with the Japanese desire to have an element named after Nishina; to diversify our sources of element-names. A later element should be named *nishinium instead.
Second comment by @JustusRobinColdFusion[]
To justify my claim "that we may have a whole flood of new elements coming": as of 2024, the only known isotope of oganesson is oganesson-294 (²⁹⁴Og); it has a half-life of about 700 microseconds (μs). However, it is a badly neutron-deficient isotope. Based on trends among known elements, the longest-lived isotope (LLI) of oganesson might have mass number ~320. Fixing such a neutron-deficiency, among elements whose LLI is known, massively improves nuclear stability. So the LLI of oganesson, may well have a half-life of years or longer; so we would be far from reaching elements so unstable that their validity is questionable.
This flood of new elements, means we need to make as many chemical symbols (ChS) as possible, available for future elements. So no calling deuterium and tritium by the so-called ChS's D and T; such a practise should be banned, and any sources that do that, should be annotated so as to avoid confusion and thus free up these symbols. Instead call deuterium and tritium "²H" and "³H" respectively (as IUPAC recommends anyway). (No calling heavy water "D₂O"!) And, for the same reason, annotate any sources that call niobium "Cb" or "Cl" (for "columbium"), lutetium "Cp" (for "cassiopium"), mendelevium "Mv", or lawrencium "Lw". And ban (again, with same annotation) the use of "Tn" as a so-called ChS for thoron (radon-220). (This was why they decided that tennessine had to go by the ChS "Ts", rather than the more appropriate "Tn".)
As i explain elsewhere among my posts on this page, cold fusion (LENR, low-energy nuclear reactions), will enable all those elements beyond oganesson to be discovered. I myself am working on LENR.
Canadium (Cd)[]
Named after Canada (obv)
Joke Name Ideas[]
Expensivium, For obvious reasons.
Minisculium[]
Named it this way because its the smallest unamed and undiscovered element.
Coronavirium
Seems to me that this pretty well sums up the last couple of years.
Neofrancium[]
Cuz it’s also known as eka-francium
Unobtainium[]
Common fictional element name in scifi and as an idiom for something that is extremely tough or impossible to find, or something that is incredibly rare.
Ilqium[]
The letters “Ilq” kinda look like the number 119. Its symbol is 119.
Comment by @JustusRobinColdFusion[]
I actually kinda like the name *ilqium (in which case the chemical symbol should be Iq); because "ilq-" (whether spelled with a capital of lowercase initial I/i) does look like 119. ("*" is, again, my notation for a contemplated name of a future element.) The "q" in "*ilqium" should be pronounced [k] (IPA, International Phonetic Alphabet, transcription). And *ilqium actually fits the IUPAC guidelines: in this case, based on a property of the element, namely its atomic number. So i think the proposed element-name *ilqium should go in the list of serious, rather than silly, proposed element-names.
119 + AIium (@OrangePraseodymium)[]
I can suggest a new equation that has the potential to impact the future:
Atomic number = Protons + AI
This equation combines the famous definition, which defines the atomic number, with the addition of AI (Artificial Intelligence). By adding AI in the equation, it symbolizes the increasing role of artificial intelligence in shaping and transforming our future. This equation highlights the potential for Al to unlock new forms of matter, enhance scientific discoveries, and revolutionize various fields such as healthcare, transportation, technology, and stealing art. Our technologies will allow us to manipulate space and time. No, officer. I did not take psychedelics. The things I threw away were decoration mushrooms.
search up “e = mc^2 + ai” and one of your braincells will die from the results
Pekridium (Pk)
A name meant to honour Dr. Giorgos Pekridis (PhD), a high school professor who enlightens students in Greece.
Ukraniaium[]
A name meant to honour Ukraine during its tough times during the war. (I have no idea how it should be spelt)
Fictional Name Ideas[]
Taratium - @Skyetheguy[]
Named after the fictional planet Tarati, as the creator of this idea imagines it to be in high amounts on that planet.
Proxenium (Px) - @G213[]
Named after the fictional megalopolis Outpost of Proxene, as the creator imagines it to be made from a particle collider in the latter.