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Mendelevium — a synthetic radioactive metallic element in the actinide series, atomic number 101, symbol Md.

Mendelevium — a synthetic radioactive metallic element in

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Synonyms

  • Simplified Chinese form of mendelevium

Usage & contexts

Examples

  • Mendelevium (鍆) is a synthetic element.
  • Scientists produced mendelevium-256 (鍆-256) in the laboratory.
  • The element was named after Dmitri Mendeleev (門捷列夫).
  • Mendelevium isotopes (鍆同位素) have short half-lives.

Collocations

  • mendelevium element(鍆元素)
  • mendelevium isotope(鍆同位素)
  • mendelevium atom(鍆原子)
  • mendelevium production(鍆的製備)
  • mendelevium discovery(鍆的發現)
  • mendelevium properties(鍆的性質)

Cultural background

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  • Named after Dmitri Mendeleev, creator of the periodic table, following the tradition of naming elements after famous scientists.
  • One of the transuranium elements first synthesized at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1955.
  • The Chinese character 鍆 follows the pattern for metallic elements with the 金 radical.

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