nobelium

American  

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

noun

Chemistry, Physics.

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

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nobelium British  

/ 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

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nobelium Scientific  

/ nō-bĕl′ē-əm /

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

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Etymology

Origin of nobelium

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

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.

From The New Yorker

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.

From Nature

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.

From New York Times