nobelium

[noh-bel-ee-uhm, -bee-lee-]

noun

Chemistry, Physics.

1. a transuranic element in the actinium series. No; 102.

nobelium

/ nəʊˈbiːlɪəm /

noun

1. a transuranic element produced artificially from curium. Symbol: No; atomic no: 102; half-life of most stable isotope, ²⁵⁵ No: 180 seconds (approx.); valency: 2 or 3

nobelium

1. A synthetic, radioactive metallic element in the actinide series that is produced by bombarding curium with carbon ions. Its longest-lived isotope is No 255 with a half-life of 3.1 minutes. Atomic number 102.

2. See Periodic Table

Word History and Origins

Origin of nobelium¹

1955–60; < New Latin; after Nobel Institute, where first discovered; -ium

Word History and Origins

Origin of nobelium¹

C20: New Latin, named after Nobel Institute, Stockholm, where it was discovered

Example Sentences

A Swedish team, using rudimentary equipment, claimed to have found it first; they wanted to call it nobelium, after the Swedish inventor of dynamite.

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Periodically, the researchers heated the filament to release the nobelium atoms into the gas phase and excited them with lasers, kicking off an electron in a two-step process — all in a matter of seconds.

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Over the course of 30 years, his inventions contributed to the discovery of americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium, lawrencium, rutherfordium, dubnium and seaborgium.

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