mendelevium
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mendelevium
- /ˌmɛn.dəˈliː.vi.əm/ UK
- /-ˈleɪ-/ UK
- /ˌmɛn.dəˈli.vi.əm/ US
- /-ˈleɪ-/ US
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From a modified version of Mendeleev + -ium (suffix forming names of metal elements), named in honour of the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev (1834–1907) who formulated the periodic law and created an early version of the periodic table of elements. The word was proposed by a team from the University of California, Berkeley, comprising the team leader Stanley Gerald Thompson and members Gregory Robert Choppin, Albert Ghiorso, Bernard George Harvey, and Glenn T. Seaborg, who artificially synthesized the element in early 1955. (The same name was proposed, but rejected, for the earlier-discovered elements berkelium and erbium.)
noun mendeleevium · mendeleyevium
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A radioactive metallic transuranic chemical element (symbol Md) with atomic number 101, which is artificially produced in a particle accelerator.
Mendelevium, the heaviest and rarest form of matter known, has been produced in the University of California's cyclotron. Identity based on only 17 atoms of new element [subtitle]. […] Mendelevium is intensely radioactive, decaying by spontaneous fission. Its half-life is between a half hour and thr
Similar: Md, Mv, unnilunium
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An atom of this element.
Similar: Md, Mv, unnilunium
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noun chemical element with atomic number 101
| Español | mendelevio |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 멘델레븀 mendellebyum |
| 日本語 | メンデレビウム menderebiumu |
| 中文 | 鍆 /钔 mén |
| Português | mendelévio |
| Français | mendélévium |
| Deutsch | Mendelevium |
| Italiano | mendelevio |
| Ελληνικά | μεντελέβιο mentelévio |
| Română | mendeleviu |
| Русский | менделе́вий mendelévij |
| Tiếng Việt | menđelevi |
| العربية | مَنْدَلِفْيُوم mandalifyum |
| עברית | מנדלביום mendelevyum |
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title = {mendelevium},
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