Chapter 7

Summary:
          Chapter 7 is where Kean talks about the discovery of the most recent elements. He informs us on a scientist, by the name of Glen Seaborg, who with the help of Albert Ghiorso, discovered many elements at the University of California Berkeley. Kean brings up the fact that these two men were responsible for almost half of the periodic table.
          He goes on to talk about the race of the elements that began. Russia saw that the United States, in particular California, was discovering so many new elements that they decided to make it a race. Both labs on different continents were said to have raced to discover new elements before each other. Kean elaborates a predicament that the two labs went through, where they both found the same element , but named it different things. The chemistry committee,  IUCAP, decided to name the elements mostly in favor of the Russians which enraged the Americans. America threatened to neglect using the IUCAP's table so the names were changed to satisfy America.

Reflection:
          I liked that Kean really went into depth with the naming of all the elements, he could've just said elements 96 to 117 instead. I disliked that the chapter was lengthy. On a night out with bae i would bring up that America threatened not to use the IUCAP's periodic table because its just funny to bring up that American scientists were such divas.