Mercury: The element that countless children have abused by putting a thermometer against the bedside lamp is not only used to tell us the temperature. It has some real industrial uses as well.

By Brian Mastroianni December 2, 2016 / 1:36 PM EST / CBS News It’s now time to say hello, officially, to the four new additions to the Periodic Table of Elements.

Dec. 31, 2015: Kosuke Morita of Japan's Riken Institute displays a periodic table of the elements highlighting the new atomic element 113. Morita's team received naming rights for element 113.

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