NOBELIUM Definition & Meaning

nobelium

[ noh-bel-ee-uhm, -bee-lee- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Chemistry, Physics.

a transuranic element in the actinium series. : No; : 102.

nobelium

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noun

a transuranic element produced artificially from curium. Symbol: No; atomic no: 102; half-life of most stable isotope, ²⁵⁵No: 180 seconds (approx.); valency: 2 or 3

nobelium

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A synthetic, radioactive metallic element in the actinide series that is produced by bombarding curium with carbon ions. Its longest-lived isotope is No 255 with a half-life of 3.1 minutes. Atomic number 102.
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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of nobelium¹

1955–60; < New Latin; after Nobel Institute, where first discovered; -ium

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of nobelium¹

C20: New Latin, named after Nobel Institute, Stockholm, where it was discovered

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A Swedish team, using rudimentary equipment, claimed to have found it first; they wanted to call it nobelium, after the Swedish inventor of dynamite.

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Periodically, the researchers heated the filament to release the nobelium atoms into the gas phase and excited them with lasers, kicking off an electron in a two-step process — all in a matter of seconds.

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Over the course of 30 years, his inventions contributed to the discovery of americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium, lawrencium, rutherfordium, dubnium and seaborgium.

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