Hahnium (Noun)
Meaning
A transuranic element.
Classification
Nouns denoting substances.
Examples
- Hahnium is a synthetic chemical element with atomic number 105, named after German chemist Otto Hahn.
- The discovery of hahnium in the 1960s marked a major breakthrough in the field of nuclear chemistry.
- Hahnium is a highly radioactive element, decaying rapidly into other transuranic elements.
- Due to its short half-life, hahnium has limited practical applications in industry or medicine.
- Scientists have only managed to synthesize a few atoms of hahnium in high-energy particle accelerators.