Mendelevium

Quick meaning: Mendelevium is a noun meaning (chemistry) A radioactive metallic transuranic chemical element (symbol Md) with atomic number 101, which is artificially produced in a particle accelerator.

Meaning

(chemistry) A radioactive metallic transuranic chemical element (symbol Md) with atomic number 101, which is artificially produced in a particle accelerator.

Example Sentences

Seven new elements were discovered with the 60-inch cyclotron: 85 (astatine), 93 (neptunium), 94 (plutonium), 96 (curium), 97 (berkelium), 98 (californium), and 101 (mendeleevium).

[Glenn Theodore] Seaborg would be the principal co-discoverer of ten elements on the periodic table: plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium, and element 106.

There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium, / And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium, / And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium, / And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium.

In the expert hands of Enrico Fermi, beginning with 1934, neutron bombardment produced new atomic miracles. In 1940, Fermi created neptunium (Z = 93), the first artificial, 'trans-uranic', element. Others, also unstable, soon followed, among them fermium (Z = 100) and mendeleyevium (Z = 101).

Word Forms

• mendeleevium
• mendeleyevium

Synonyms for mendelevium

Depending on context, synonyms include Mv, unnilunium.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mv, mendelevate, manganese, mu-meson, manganium, moskovium.

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