Meitnerium (Noun)
Meaning
A radioactive transuranic element.
Classification
Nouns denoting substances.
Examples
- Meitnerium is a synthetic element with the atomic number 109 and is not found naturally on Earth.
- The most stable known isotope of meitnerium has a half-life of just 220 milliseconds.
- Meitnerium was first synthesized in 1982 by a team of scientists at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
- Due to its highly radioactive nature, meitnerium has no known practical applications.
- Meitnerium is named after the Austrian-Swedish physicist Lise Meitner, who made significant contributions to the discovery of nuclear fission.