| The element 114, Ununquadium, Uuq, was discovered and reported December 1998 - January 1999 by scientists from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia with materials from scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA. In 2004 Ununquadium was synthesized by another pathway the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia. The name Ununquadium (symbol Uuq) is a temporary IUPAC systematic chemical element name for element 114. This name will be changes in future. Another temporary name for this element is eka-lead, due to predicted similarities between Ununquadium and Lead. |