mendelevium

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Mendelevium is a synthetic, radioactive actinide element with atomic number 101, named after Dmitri Mendeleev and produced only in particle accelerators.

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Label Occurrences
mendelevium canonical 4
element mendelevium 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf actinide
chemical element
radioactive element
synthetic element
atomicNumber 101
atomicRadiusPm around 173
belongsToSeries transuranium elements
block f-block
CASNumber 7440-11-1
chemicalSymbol Md
discoveredAt Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
discoveredInCountry United States of America
surface form: United States
discoverer Albert Ghiorso
Bernard G. Harvey
Glenn T. Seaborg
Gregory R. Choppin
Stanley G. Thompson
discoveryYear 1955
electronConfiguration [Rn] 5f13 7s2
elementCategory actinide
firstSynthesisReactionType alpha-particle bombardment
firstSynthesisTarget einsteinium-253
group actinide series
hasNoStableIsotopes yes
isotopesCountKnown more than 15 isotopes
isTransuranic yes
IUPACName mendelevium self-link
meltingPointCelsius about 827
meltingPointKelvin 1100
mostStableIsotope mendelevium-258
mostStableIsotopeHalfLife about 51.5 days
namedAfter Dmitri Mendeleev
namedForContribution periodic table development
occursNaturally no
oxidationState +2
+3
period 7
phaseAtSTP solid
positionInPeriodicTable between fermium and nobelium
primaryOxidationStateInSolution +3
producedBy particle accelerators
radioactive yes
secondaryOxidationStateInSolution +2
standardAtomicWeight [258]
symbolOrigin derived from name mendelevium
syntheticProductionMethod heavy-ion bombardment
Z 101

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Glenn T. Seaborg discovered mendelevium
mendelevium IUPACName mendelevium self-link
Dmitri Mendeleev hasHonorificEponym mendelevium
this entity surface form: element mendelevium