nobelium

American

[noh-bel-ee-uhm, -bee-lee-] / noʊˈbɛl i əm, -ˈbi li- /

noun

Chemistry, Physics.

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

nobelium British

/ nəʊˈbiːlɪəm /

noun

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

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nobelium Scientific

/ nō-bĕl′ē-əm /

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.
See Periodic Table

Etymology

Origin of nobelium

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

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

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 27, 2019

A 1.00 10–6-g sample of nobelium, has a half-life of 55 seconds after it is formed.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

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