It's all in the name

Flerovium and livermorium have officially taken their places at the table, the periodic table that is. IUPAC has now approved the names for the new elements of atomic number 114 and 116, with the symbols Fl and Lv respectively. These names replace the temporary names assigned upon their discovery of ununquadium and ununhexium.

They are both man-made elements. Lv is synthesised by firing calcium ions into curium targets and it decays rapidly to Fl. They were first discovered at the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, and their existence was confirmed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

Flerovium is named after the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions in Dubna, which is itself named after the renowned Russian scientist Georgiy Flerov, who discovered the spontaneous fission of uranium. Livermorium, not surprisingly, is named after the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.