Multiple choice

The newly discovered “Super heavy” element 112 in periodic table has been named as

  1. copernicium

  2. germanibium

  3. upacbium

  4. none of these
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Element 112 (copernicium, Cn) was officially named in 2009 after Nicolaus Copernicus, the astronomer who proposed the heliocentric model. It was first synthesized in 1996 at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Germany. The name honors Copernicus' revolutionary contribution to our understanding of the solar system.

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