Naming
Using Mendeleev's nomenclature for unnamed and undiscovered elements, ununseptium should be known as eka-astatine or dvi-iodine. In 1979 IUPAC published recommendations according to which the element was to be called ununseptium (with the corresponding symbol of Uus), a systematic element name as a placeholder, until the discovery of the element is confirmed and a name is decided on. The recommendations are largely ignored among scientists, who call it "element 117", with the symbol of (117) or even simply 117. According to current guidelines from IUPAC, the ultimate name for all new elements should end in "-ium", which means the name for ununseptium will end in "-ium", not "-ine", even if ununseptium turns out to be a halogen, which traditionally have names ending in "-ine".
No official name has yet been suggested for the element. However, the discoverers will get a right to suggest a name for it as soon as it is recognized by the JWP; a Dubna authority said in June 2012 that it "could take up to a year" before this happens.
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