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Oganessian
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English
Etymology
en :bor ru:Оганеся́н 1
From en ru Оганеся́н, russification of en hy Հովհաննիսյան.
Proper noun
en Armenian.
en IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 w:IUPAC https://iupac.org/iupac-announces-the-names-of-the-elements-113-115-117-and-118/ 2016-11-30 Lastly, and in line with the tradition of honoring a scientist, the name oganesson and symbol Og for element 118 was proposed by the collaborating teams of discoverers at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna (Russia) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (USA) and recognizes Professor Yuri Oganessian (born 1933) for his pioneering contributions to transactinoid elements research. https://web.archive.org/web/20260916100059/https://iupac.org/iupac-announces-the-names-of-the-elements-113-115-117-and-118/ 16 September 2026
Derived terms
en oganesson
Statistics
According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Oganessian is the 299206th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 58 individuals.
Further reading
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