it can seemingly take 14 years to name a freaking element Naming it is easy. Making the name stick is hard. I'm sure it takes time to make sure that (a) the r

it can seemingly take 14 years to name a freaking element Naming it is easy. Making the name stick is hard. I'm sure it takes time to make sure that (a) the result is real; (b) it is correctly attributed. And nobody wants to have to take an element back. That would create a small-scale version of the furor that ensured when the astronomers had to take one of the solar system's planets back.