Naming
Using Mendeleev's nomenclature for unnamed and undiscovered elements, unbihexium should be known as eka-thorium or dvi-cerium. In 1979 IUPAC published recommendations according to which the element was to be called unbibium (with the corresponding symbol of Ubb), a systematic element name as a placeholder, until the discovery of the element is confirmed and a name is decided on. The recommendations are largely ignored among scientists, who call it "element 122", with the symbol of (122) or even simply 122.
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