Mendelevium
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Mendelevium is a synthetic chemical element; it has symbol Md and atomic number 101. A metallic radioactive transuranium element in the actinide series, it is the first element by atomic number that c
The 60-inch cyclotron at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, in August 1939
The data sheet, showing stylus tracing and notes, that proved the discovery of mendelevium.
The element was named after Dmitri Mendeleev.
Periodic table
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The periodic table, also known as the periodic table of the elements, is an ordered arrangement of the chemical elements into rows and columns. An icon of chemistry, the periodic table is widely used
Mendelevium
…elements. It is the thirteenth actinide, the ninth transuranic element, and the first transfermium; it is named after Dmitri Mendeleev, the father of the periodic table. Like all the transfermiums, it can only be produced in particle accelerators by bombarding lighter elements with charged particles. The element was…
Liquid mercury. Its liquid state at standard conditions is the result of relativistic effects.
Graphite and diamond, two allotropes of carbon
Iron, a metal
Sulfur, a nonmetal