Lr (Noun)
Meaning
A radioactive transuranic element synthesized from californium.
Classification
Nouns denoting substances.
Examples
- Lawrencium is a synthetic radioactive transuranic element with no known biological role in the human body.
- A team of scientists at the University of California successfully synthesized lawrencium from californium in the 1960s.
- Lawrencium primarily decays through electron capture or alpha decay, revealing its unstable nature.
- Research on lawrencium has been limited due to its extreme rarity and highly radioactive properties.
- Lawrencium isotopes have very short half-lives, with some lasting less than an hour.