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mendelevium

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun mendelevium has 1 sense

mendelevium(n = noun.substance) atomic number 101, md, mv - a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding einsteinium with alpha particles (Md is the current symbol for mendelevium but Mv was formerly the symbol); Array

is a kind of chemical element, element

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mendelevium, a. [From Dmitri Mendeleyev, discoverer of the periodic law.].

an unstable radioactive element discovered in 1955 and produced artificially only in very small quantities; symbol Md (also Mv). It is a transuranic element with atomic number 101. Isotopes 255, 256, 257, and 258 have been prepared. Md²⁵⁸, the longest-lived, has a half-life of two months. [PJC]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

mendelevium, n. Chem. an artificially made transuranic radioactive metallic element.

Usage

Symb.: Md.

Etymology

D. I. Mendeleev, Russ. chemist d. 1907

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