Mendelevium (Noun)
Meaning
A radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding einsteinium with alpha particles (Md is the current symbol for mendelevium but Mv was formerly the symbol).
Classification
Nouns denoting substances.
Examples
- Mendelevium was first synthesized in 1953 by a team of scientists at the University of California, Berkeley.
- The most stable isotope of mendelevium has a half-life of approximately 51 days.
- Mendelevium is a synthetic element that has no known uses outside of scientific research.
- The name mendelevium was chosen to honor the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev.
- Because of its extreme rarity, very few properties of mendelevium have been thoroughly studied or measured.