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Nobelium (No)
Element 102.An artificial and radioactive metal element in the actinide series in the Periodic Table. The properties of this element are unknown because so little has been isolated; but because it is an actinide, it is expected that its properties should be similar to other rare earths.
Discovery
It was possibly discovered by the Nobel Institute for Physics in Sweden in 1957 by bombarding curium with carbon ions.The official first authenticated discovery was made by Albert Ghiorso,T. Sikkeland, J. R. Walton and Glenn T. Seaborg at Berkeley, California, in 1958.This element is named after Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the Swedish inventor and philanthropist.
Technology
Because so little of it has been isolated, so far it has no uses.
Geology
It is an artificial element that does not occur in the environment.
Biology
Nobelium does not occur in living things; and because it is radioactive, if it were ever produced in substantial quantities, it has
the potential to be harmful.
Key facts...
Name: nobelium
Symbol: No
Atomic number: 102
Atomic weight: 259
Position in Periodic Table: inner transition metal;
period 7 (actinide series)
State at room temperature: solid
Colour: unknown
Density: n/a
Melting point: n/a
Boiling point: n/a
Origin of name: named after Alfred Nobel (of
Nobel Prize fame)
Shell pattern of electrons: 2–8–18–32–32–8–2
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